Re: Trouble with Articles

From: habarakhe4 (theophilus88@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 01:55:16 EST


--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@f...> wrote:
> En réponse à Christian Thalmann :
<snip>
> >I think I'm just going to use the singular indefinite article
> >for uncountables. Thus "the taste of wine" would become |is
> >sappur nys uenun| [i 'sapp@r nyz 'y@n@]. The danger of
> >misunderstanding is very low, methinks.
In Fortunatian, it may be either
<naun amic> [non amik] no friend
<nir d'amic> [nir damik] nothing of a friend (no friend)
<snip>
> > > In Narbonósc, there is a partitive article of the form "ne/na"
(which
> > > exists only in the singular). It is derived from "em+e"
and "em+a"
> >(like
> > > "du" is "de+le").
Nowt such as this in Fortunatian.
> >
> >Pretty cool.
>
> Thanks! :)))
>
> Christophe Grandsire.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.



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