europidgin | Re: Tenses and plurals (was: general comments)

• Autor: europidgin
• Tema: Re: Tenses and plurals (was: general comments)
• Data: 2002-09-18 09:36
• Mesaje: 131 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Just a crazy idea:

What about a pidging or "pijin" without any tense-system at all. I guess that most pidgins didn't have tense at the beginning. And I think travellers get by without it.

The speaker if really needed can always express time in other ways (yesterday etc.)

The creole could then introduce a few simple rules, first of all past tense I guess.

If the majority is for an isolating system I think that I prefer "pa" and "fu". But suffixes are in my humble opinion a better solution. I think that all these small words make it difficult and slow to read a text.

Bjorn