Talk:Ganoom

The navigation sidebar doesn't appear for me when viewing Ganoom, and the text is larger than all other wiki pages. --Krator 17:23, 27 Feb 2006 (GMT)

• Krator, I was able to get the font sizes the same, but I have no idea what the navigation sidebar doesn't show. - Gurky
  
  
  • Gurky, I removed these two lines:

[div align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt;" >

[div style="font-size: 9pt;" align="left">

With the first character being "<" instead of "[."

I think [div> cannot be used in wikis.

You might need to edit the article now, as the markup was probably changed.

--Krator 13:24, 5 Mar 2006 (GMT)

Ganoom Forum

• Where would one ask about additional vocabulary? Is there a forum for the language? Right now I'm wondering about a word for greetings to augment fegallishaaven. Greetings in German is Grüße (according to the fish), and hello is just hallo. This may or may not help. --Marin Nemelgen (Mac 20:36, 4 Apr 2006 (GMT))

Verbs

1. Inflecting verbs and modal verbs

So far, the gnomish I want to reach will be where the verb is inflected to indicate the subject. That is" Misch stikken" would be "I fight with you", -en being who is fought with. So, saying : "I sing" would be "Chonn-isch", since, to sing is "Chonnoch".

Here's an example:

I sing - Chonn-isch You sing - Chonn-en He sings - Chonn-um She sings - Chonn-aam It sings - Chonn-he We sing - Chonn-eimer You (plural) sing - Chonn-otter They sing - Chonn-at

Since "to be" is auch, so "I am" would be Auch-isch. We have no modal verbs that indicate future yet, so "I will" can't exactly be said yet. In Germanic languages, future is indicated by a simple addition of the modal verb (will).

Ich werde... Ek sal... I will...

Modal verbs, though, are usually morphic; that is, the word itself changes with different subjects (Ich werde, du wirst, wir werden, ihr wirdt). The same can't be said in Afrikaans (Ek sal, jy sal, ons sal, julle sal) or English (I will, you will, he will, she will).

So .. as far as the modal verb : [b]to will[/b] is concerned... I'd like to make Gnomish a language that can have long strings of words. How's about, to indicate future tense, we simply attach "wir" to the verb?

I will sing - Wir-chonn-isch You will sing - Wir-chonn-en He will sing - Wir-chonn-um She will sing - Wir-chonn-aam It will sing - Wir-chonn-he We will sing - Wir-chonn-eimer You (plural) will sing - Wir-chonn-otter They will sing - Wir-chonn-at

Please let me know if you agree.

2. Infinite of a verb

"To learn" is the infinite of "learn", as is "lernen" in German or "om te leer" in Afrikaans. If you mean "Learning is a good thing", then that "learning" isn't exactly a verb, is it ? Well, we'll be able to discuss this here.