From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 01:20:53 EST
--- Sabrina Laurent skrzypszy:
> I'm glad you like it! It's my very first conlang, so i hope i've
> done a good job!
Don't worry, you have. Did you make the numerals already? If so, I would like
to see them.
> Yes, i based my language mainly on Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
> and French, and came up with the verb "Facer" for "to do". I think
> this verb is irregular in the 4 languages i named above, but i want
> to avoid irregular verbs and make it simple. I have only 3 irregular
> verbs : esser (to be), aver (to have) and ir (to go).
You dislike irregular verbs? Why?
> Oh yeah, i realized i made a mistake when using the personal
> pronoun in imperative. The first one is correct ("perdonanos") and
> the first one should have been "liberanos". I'm sorry, i had trouble
> deciding about that and i'm still a bit lost. But that's the only
> case where i'm using the enclisis (unlike Spanish and Italian).
Well, one shouldn't necessarily exclude the other. I can very well imagine that
both possibilities coexist peacefully. Perhaps it depends on the speaker's
taste which option prevails. In order to create a feeling of variety, they
might even appear together in one sentence.
Jan
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