Kevin Smith | Re: [europidgin] Personal pronouns - The most simple solution

• Autor: Kevin Smith (“kevinbsmith”)
• Tema: Re: [europidgin] Personal pronouns - The most simple solution
• Data: 2002-09-17 00:36
• Mesaje: 90 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:11, europidgin wrote:
> I, me -- me
> we,us -- mes

> By suffix "-a": Me prende mea libro.
> Then we have "mesa" for "our".

> And further we would have "tu", "tua", "tus", and "tusa".
> Further we can drop distinctions between he, she, it etc. Then it could be something like "le", "lea", "les" and "lesa".

I agree that this is pretty simple.

I could accept 'mes' or 'nos', because _we_ is a pretty important
concept. 'mes' seems a bit difficult to pronounce, and 'mesa' seems like
a potentially valuable non-pronoun word.

I agree that '...de me' is cumbersome, and would prefer a shorter, more
direct solution. The problem with -a is that it ONLY works for pronouns.
You still need a solution for "John's book" and the "teacher's desk". I
would prefer to explore other, more general approaches before settling
on -a.

For example, you listed "three ways" to show word order, but missed the
fourth, which is to have a word which means that the thing on the left
posesses the thing on the right. Like a word that means:   's

I am also open to the word order solution, although it is less like LFN
and existing European languages.

> Well, it's simple and regular. Perhaps so regular that it's a bit boring.

I think "boring" in a pidgin IAL is a very good thing. Simple. No
surprises.

Kevin