From: Jeffrey S. Jones (jeffsjones@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 01:18:08 EST
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:55:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Padraic Brown <elemtilas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Re: My romance lang.
--- "Jeffrey S. Jones" <jeffsjones@earthlink.net>
wrote:
[Magomagno wrote:]
> > > I'm working on my own ideal international
> > > Romance lang.
[Iscripssí:]
>> [W]e'd also like to see this
>> message as the very last in which you tout it
>> as "ideal" or "international".
>
> My impression is that magomagno wasn't too
> serious about the policital aspect. Is that
> correct, MM?
Could be. We'll never know, cos the Wizard has decided to scrap
Neo-Latin in favour of other projects.
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Too bad.
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Personally, I kind of liked it. But when the first thing out of a
poster's mouth is chapter 1, verse 1 of the IALer's Gospel of the
Promulgation,
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IALer's Gospel of the Promulgation? Do you have a copy of that? It would
make a dandy translation exercise, or maybe a relay text!
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one can only assume that the intent is earnest unless further evidence
to the contrary is forthcomming!
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I've been trying to assume the opposite, so that I'll waste less time
flaming. :)
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> > No gender? Strange... Romlangs used to have gender...
>
> They still do. Some have all three inherited
> genders. Euroclones tend to dump it for some
> strange reason, though!
> >>>>>
>
> The gender would have to be either biological or match the noun
> ending. It's simpler to eliminate it.
Agreed (a la English), but contrary to the premise. The premise being
the use of the ablative singular (-â, -ô, -e, -î, -û, -ê) as the basis
for the N-L nouns endings.
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I had forgotten about that. I suppose one could invent new genders to
match the declensions!
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> My question is: Is the -i ending retained when adjectives are used as
> nouns?
Someone else also asked that;
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I'm having trouble operating in realtime.
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I also lamented the discrimination of important -i stem Latin nouns
that will be forced into a nother declension simply because -i is now to
be used as the adj. ending. Mind you, I'm not _against_ this
solution, just wondering at it.
Padraic.
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Jeff Jones
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