Talk:Iermansc 1.0

Good work
Very interesting so far, I like it. I would like to disagree a bit. If Latin and German got together to form this language, I would think the comparisons would have remained a bit more synthetic, ie, keeping -er and -est (and perhaps the Latin -issimus in some way). This would also serve to distinguish this language from all other modern Romance languages. Keep it up! --JJohnson 16:46, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Fantastic idea! So maybe the comparative is a relfex of the -IOR ending and the superlative of -ISSIMUS. -IOR would probably be an undressed /-jǝr/, which is interesting, because the /j/ can cause umlaut in /u o/ and palatalization in /t k/ and sometimes other consonants. An example would be "strong":

Lat. FORTEM > forþ Lat. FORTIOR > fercier Lat. FORTISSIMUS > forðén/forðéna

Or something like like that. Let's see, the irregulars could be along the lines of:

BONUS > bon MELIOR > melier OPTIMUS > eften

MAGNUS > main MAIOR > maier MAXIMUS > mascen

I'll have to work this out and type it up when I have more time, I have a very demanding job right now...

--thedudeatx 2:09, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello! I'm not much into conlangs, but I found this really interesting. Well done. :-)

I wondered if the pronominal "one" should be "om" rather than "in". cf. German /man/, and French /on/ (possibly from Old French /om/, latin /homo/?).

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=one

Oh, I didn't get ljur/liur for melior, but the rest seemed pretty straightforward. I like the idea above.

79.69.241.127 13:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC) (Tom)

you raise a very good point, and "one" should indeed be "om". i thought it came from UNUS instead of HOMO for some reason.

"liur" was just a shorted form of "meliur" < MELIOR. but as it will be revised out of existence i guess it's a moot point. thanks for the suggestion/correction!

--thedudeatx 2:39, 17 October 2008 (UTC)