Re: Syntactic conventions

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

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          steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Talking of prefixes, isiZulu uses prefixes for plurals, that depend on
> the noun class. Gavin will appreciate the fact that there are
> theoretically fifteen distinct noun classes (basically it's
> grammatical gender but not the I-E male/female/neuter)

Yes he does! Thank you Steve.

A boy I knew at school (who went on to found the Journal of Software
Maintenance) had an imaginary language (as did I) whose complexities
grew at such a rate that his imaginary grammarians (they lived on the 
inner surface of a hollow comet) could not keep pace with it.
I dimly remember that verbs had among their unnumberable modes "the 
irate", "the ambulative" and the "interjective".

Happy days!
-- 
Gavin Wraith