On 08/18 12:44 Mau Rauszer wrote:
> From: andrew <hobbit@...>
> Subject: Re: A New language
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>
> > On 08/17 15:52 Mau Rauszer wrote:
> In a fantasy world or just like our earth?
>
A fantasy world.
> Are they living in patriarchism?
>
That's a hard question to answer. Their society is traditional, but
some aspects are unorthodox. They allow for women-run households as
well as men-run ones. Also the naming rights of a first-born is not
gender-specific. If a man marries a first-born woman in a familyline he
may choose to take her surname for the prestige.
> So you form plural pronouns by stem-duplicating.
>
At the surface level yes, but I can remember devising these pronouns,
it's actually infixing. That is why there is no plural of |to|.
>
> > Five of these pronouns have reduced forms:
> >
> > me, m 1s meme, mme 1p
> > te, t 2s tete, tte 2p
> > to, tte 3s ga 3p
> >
> > The meaning of the reduced form tte is generally clear by context.
> But they are probably suffixes, ain't they? (It's hard to pronounce a sole m or
> t, at least, for me :)
You are correct. They are suffixes.
> I mean I'm talking about LW even when I don't want. Like the evolution of LW
> is a bit OT for this subject discussing your 2.0 :)
>
Yes, that is how conlangers exchange ideas and examples. It's not a sin
to do it.
> > > But aren't the triagraph |ksh| too long for a frequent sound?
> > >
> > Only when transliterated into latin letters. :) Although the original
> Yeah, I was talking about transliteration not their script :)
>
I'm comfortable with a trigraph for this sound. It's clear to me what
it means. Also I don't know how common in the language it is. Although
it could quite well be that the speakers spell it with a single letter.
> > script hasn't been developed yet. I have some ideas.
> Is it totally dfifferent from anything we know or does it show similarities
> with a system of our own world?
I will probably have to go look at different writing systems and decide
first. I imagine it as a tight cursive script from left to right. Some
parts of the language have their own special letters or shorthand.
- andrew.
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