Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Capraian

From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 20:52:09 EST


 --- James Campbell skrzypszy:

> >>
> Corsican, Sicilian, Provencal and perhaps Catalan are
> non-Italian langs that should also be of interest.
> <<
>
> True - Corsican will certainly be an influence. I take your point on the
> others.

You should definitely have a look at Munegasca, a really weird language spoken
in Monaca. Thomas posted the link to conlang last week:
<http://www.ac-nice.fr/regional/lcr_mon.htm>

And Re: Usted:

> For Capraian, I'm inclined to commandeer the reflexive pronoun "sec" for
> polite-2nd-person duty ("Would herself like another cucumber sandwich?") --
> has anyone here done similarly, or have you followed the Usted/U or
> Sie/De/Lei patterns?

Wonderful!
No, I haven't tried such a thing, although I would be inclined to use an
equivalent of "self".

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