Re: [romanceconlang] eseri Cardadjena

From: Adam Walker (dreamertwo@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 15:13:47 EST

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Nigolu worte:

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@gdn.net>
>Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:35:35 -0400
>
>Adam Walker wrote:
> >
> > What endings?
> > >Adam Walker wrote:
> > > > jo sumu nos sumus
> > > > tu es tus sidis
> > > > vos sidi vosus sidis
> > > > vosas sidis
> > >
> > >Where'd the second person polite singular endings come from?
>
>I mean, where'd the distinction between _sidi_ and _sidis_ come from?

Ah, that. Sidi is a back formation. Some how it came to seem wrong to use
the "same" verb for singular and plural so sidi was back formed.

And I have a typo in the above. The first person pronoun is NOT jo it is
ju. "O" cannot be in final position.

Adamu

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