Main      Site Guide    
Message Forum
Syntactical Meanderings
Posted By: gabby, on host 206.64.0.54
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000, at 18:53:02

As I sat here, I realized that there is absolutely nothing that I want for the time being. I've had a long day, so I also wondered: Is this contentment or listlessness? Also, isn't "listlessness" highly repetitive and boring to spell? Finally, shouldn't the subject be "Dictional," rather than "Syntactical?" Oh, and "fluid" isn't a very fluid word, nor is "onomotopoeia" onomotopoeia. Shouldn't "renege" be pronounced "ree-nezh' " in English? What is the plural of "picnic" in Spanish? An earlier thread talked about metricizing various things, what about language? Then again, author David Brin makes a strong case for letting language "deteriorate" even more. Now that I've changed topics several times, I think I'll begin a new paragraph.

What do you think about invented languages such as Esperanto and Volapuk or even the almost-completely-regular Turkish, versus our own chaotic tongue? I personally like the irregularity of English, and would use "dreamt" over "dreamed" anytime, or "yclept" over "cleped," or "dove" over "dived." I like the Anglic forms much better than the Latinate, and much prefer "feckless" over "ineffectual."

Now that I'm nowhere near where I began, I'll stop and leave it to you to reply however you may.

gab"hmmm... no ideas"by

Replies To This Message