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Double day
DAY NINE: Verbs. And verbs.
Here, let's start off with what I already in my notes for verbs.
Now let's cut to me laughcrying hysterically for ten minutes.
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OKAY, now that that's done, let's take a look at what this actually says.
Tense: when the verb is occurring.
Aspect: in what pattern the verb is occurring.
Mood: the significance of the verb, I guess.
Static versus dynamic, I intended to differentiate things like... standing versus standing up, I believe? I think, however, that is better served by aspect. Possibly. Probably. Sure.
Reflexive is to indicate that a thing is verbing at itself, which means it is its own object... which makes me think that maybe I should have this indicated by doubling the case suffix. (interesting idea!) Perhaps this translated to a reflexive prefix that matches the accusative suffix? Hmmm... yes, I like that.
Tense: I'm going back to three suffixes, past present and future. HOWEVER. I'm going to make an additional infix sort of thing which you can put before the tense suffix that indicates 'near'. The recent past, the near future - and when used on present tense, it indicates 'sometime around now'.
For aspects, I have no idea what I meant by 'success' and why it's separate from 'perfect'. I'm considering replacing it with... I don't know if it has a name, but it's sort of like the opposite of perfect? Not in the sense that it is continuing or was continuing, but rather that it ended incompletely. Sort of like the implication of "she was writing a book" that the writing is no longer happening, but without the added meaning of the action continuing for some time. I don't know. The cessative aspect is the closest I can find to what I'm thinking, so I'll just... call it that for now.
Moods! Mooooods. Moods are gonna be prefixes now because I said so. All right, the list of moods up there has:
normal statements
aphorisms
indirect dependent clauses
uncertainty
possibility
commands
questions
This looks pretty good, actually. Wishful statements get put in 'possibility'. Indicative is "default" so gets no prefix.
I think the gerund/infinitive is as simple as declining the root verb as a noun, so I don't need to do anything there. Which means... time to think of ten billion suffixes! Yay!!!11!1!eleven1
[mood][root][aspect][tense]
Tense
past: -tu
present: -ao
future: -ype
"near": -it-
Aspect
periodic: -reru-
progressive: -ehi-
perfect: -my-
cessative: -akh-
Mood
indicative: [none]
generic: ha-
subjunctive: iry-
dubitative: khese-
potential: pfyo-
imperative: ou-
interrogative: ibi-
Here, let's start off with what I already in my notes for verbs.
Verbs
tense: distant past, past, present, near future, future
aspect: progressive, perfect, periodic, success
mood: indicative, generic, subjunctive (used for indirect dependent clauses), dubitative, potential/speculative, imperative, interrogative
static, dynamic
reflexive
reflexive:state:root:aspect:tense:mood
adding the noun-conversion suffix to the root (or reflexive+root) creates the infinitive/gerund analogue.
(verb):modifier prefix:modifier
Now let's cut to me laughcrying hysterically for ten minutes.
----
OKAY, now that that's done, let's take a look at what this actually says.
Tense: when the verb is occurring.
Aspect: in what pattern the verb is occurring.
Mood: the significance of the verb, I guess.
Static versus dynamic, I intended to differentiate things like... standing versus standing up, I believe? I think, however, that is better served by aspect. Possibly. Probably. Sure.
Reflexive is to indicate that a thing is verbing at itself, which means it is its own object... which makes me think that maybe I should have this indicated by doubling the case suffix. (interesting idea!) Perhaps this translated to a reflexive prefix that matches the accusative suffix? Hmmm... yes, I like that.
Tense: I'm going back to three suffixes, past present and future. HOWEVER. I'm going to make an additional infix sort of thing which you can put before the tense suffix that indicates 'near'. The recent past, the near future - and when used on present tense, it indicates 'sometime around now'.
For aspects, I have no idea what I meant by 'success' and why it's separate from 'perfect'. I'm considering replacing it with... I don't know if it has a name, but it's sort of like the opposite of perfect? Not in the sense that it is continuing or was continuing, but rather that it ended incompletely. Sort of like the implication of "she was writing a book" that the writing is no longer happening, but without the added meaning of the action continuing for some time. I don't know. The cessative aspect is the closest I can find to what I'm thinking, so I'll just... call it that for now.
Moods! Mooooods. Moods are gonna be prefixes now because I said so. All right, the list of moods up there has:
normal statements
aphorisms
indirect dependent clauses
uncertainty
possibility
commands
questions
This looks pretty good, actually. Wishful statements get put in 'possibility'. Indicative is "default" so gets no prefix.
I think the gerund/infinitive is as simple as declining the root verb as a noun, so I don't need to do anything there. Which means... time to think of ten billion suffixes! Yay!!!11!1!eleven1
[mood][root][aspect][tense]
Tense
past: -tu
present: -ao
future: -ype
"near": -it-
Aspect
periodic: -reru-
progressive: -ehi-
perfect: -my-
cessative: -akh-
Mood
indicative: [none]
generic: ha-
subjunctive: iry-
dubitative: khese-
potential: pfyo-
imperative: ou-
interrogative: ibi-
no subject
no subject