On Sat, 31 May 2008 06:53:58 +0200, "Klaus Dieckmann"
<klaus.dieckmann@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"Padraic Brown" wrote:
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>> I was also perplexed as to why he would introduce ablaut into a
>> Romance conlang. Latin had a very little (vult / velle perhaps?), but
>> I think it disappeared eventually.
>>
>> As for the "lacking tradition" in other projects, it might be pointed
>> out that Latine Sine Inflexione and Interlingua and undoubtedly other
>> conlangs are strongly based on Latin.
>
>> The morphological choices of Eurana are kind of strange, too. Why
>> -adu? What does that derive from? It looks like a past participle
>> (-atus). Why are superlative adjectives in -ima, and not -issima? Why
>> are adverbs morphologically identical to adjectives? Sure, the old
>> accusative neuter adjective = adverb, but why in a "logical" language
>> where presumably one is seeking to reduce confusion of forms?
>>
>> Might also be noted that "perfect" is not a tense, but an aspect like
>> imperfect. What's a "past future tense"?
>>
>> Why is the reflexive pronoun "ze" and not "se"?
>>
>> Why do the numbers switch to Sanskrit for the 10s? Then Greek for six
>> and the hundreds?
>
>Many whys.
But no answers. :(
I'm not complaining about your language, just interested in why you
chose this over that.
>But, every language creator is free to formulate his language as
>he wishes to do.
Yes, he may. You're proposing an IAL, not an artlang. You yourself
have implied that it does a better job of being an IAL than other
IALs, and is strongly based on Latin, etc. It seems to me there's some
confusion about the design principles!
Mind you, I would still ask many of those same questions, even if your
project were proposed as a purely artistic conlang! There's a lot of
odd things going on in there that demand asnwers. I'm not complaining
that you throw in some Greek forms -- heck, Kerno has borrowed the
Greek middle participle!
All that aside, "perfect" is still not a tense. ;)
Padraic
>Greetings
>Klaus
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