Hi all, It's been a long time since I posted, but I noticed that some confusion reigns over the origins of the form of "go." In the proto- language, something...
Hi, Suppose FS were to have a singular/plural distinction that works for verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc? Ik hald/du hald/hi hald vs. vi halde/ji halde/di halde ...
Hi again, One of the things I have noted (being an English teacher) is that some of the functions of the English subjunctive are accomplished by stepping the...
Finally someone agrees with me! I have the same idea for verbs, i.e. finite verbs conjugate for whether the subject is plural or singular. In regular verbs,...
... Poor guy !-) But I may be prepared to agree on this too, partially. I can imagine this singular vs plural thing in verbs: ik du hi WIL wi ji de WILLE ik...
For me, having a plural vs singular verbs conjugation but not having the irregular verbs is pointless. Why not then just have all verbs conjugate the same? If...
The verbs can be irregular, but they must change their stems only when changing from present to past and to past participle. And kanne, mage and schalle are...
I think we should only have this kind of difference from singular to plural in "wese", because it is too irregular, it is an anomalous verb. (more than only...
In non standard Dutch, especially that of the major cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, it's quite normal to say: ik kan/ken* - zal - mag je kan/ken...
... Yes but look at the infinitives in Swedish. They are "skulle" and "kunna". And also the finite verbs don't have the normal "-ar" or "-er" suffix. The...
The problem I have with irregular verbs, is the irregularity. If we allow that in Folksprak, where will it end? I'm so afraid that our lingo will become less...
OK, so it could be 3 groups: 1st. be 2nd. have 3rd. modal verbs (mögen, können, müssen, dürfen, wollen and sollen) ... [Non-text portions of this message...
And strong verbs rule don't need to only disappear, that's a germanic characteristic. But if we reduce those 6, 7, or even 8 classes to only 1, 2 or even 3...
... Well one of the primary source languages of Interlingua is English which is no Romance language. And the design aims of IL are that any feature shared by...
I think we should not use FS cognate of EN "do" or FS cognate of EN "speak" as regular verbs just because there is no cognate in simply one of the source...
Well I love strong verbs, and to have FS without them seems to be cheapening it and an insult to the beauty of it's source languages. (Tongue was in cheek) But...
I don't agree. When I, as an English speaker, learn German and find that the German verb "singen" is strong and follows a very similar vowel gradation pattern...
DE schlafen, ich schlafe, ich schlief EN to sleep DE stehen, ich stehe, ich stand EN to stand Can you guess why the German verb is strong, whereas the English...
... And I love regular verbs, and to have FS with them seems to be complicating it and an insult to the beauty of artificial languages;-) Nevertheless, I...
Dear Folksprak people, After a little break, I would like to present to you my newest grammar version. http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Folksprak/_Grammatik First...
Hi David, hi Ingmar, After Ingmar's latest mail I think to understand that the feeling that communication about our consensus folksprak is not going very well....
Can you imagine that in Folksprak sentences like "if I were rich..." or "so be it" should not exist? These sentences contain subjunctives (past tense and...
I'm gonna take a break as well... I don't know for how long,it might be for a while, sorry. I'm fed up with FS right now, and I want to concentrate on other...
Stephen, I just looked at your latest file and think you have developed a nice grammar. I am sure that anyone who can read at least two of the Germanic...
... "Strong" as in "strong verb" is not a synonym for "irregular". We've got regular and irregular strong verbs (singen vs. kommen) and regular and irregular...
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