The Qorbenic Programme
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:26 pm
Report on the progress on Qorbenic II, Stage 1
Work on Qorbenic II commenced at 12:20am on 20th June, 2066. The initial goal was the fusing of English noun stems with regularised Finnish case and number endings. The endings in question were selected by the committee as follows:
Nominative: -0
Accusative: -ta (derived from the Finnish partitive. Researcher Groswald objected to this decision; he was outvoted and consequently defenestrated)
Genitive ("of") / Instructive ("with"/"using"): -n
Inessive ("in"): -ssa
Elative ("from"): -sta
Illative ("into"): -an
Adessive ("at, on"): -lla
Ablative ("from") -lta
Allative ("to, onto"): -lle
Essive ("as"): -na
Translative ("into", transformation): -ksi
Abessive ("without"): -tta
Comitative ("(together) with"): -ne
Plurals were to be formed with -i- (-j- between vowels) before the case ending. An experiment with nominative/accusative ending -t was deemed unsuccessful.
-e- was to be inserted before consonant-initial affixes in certain contexts, which were hotly debated with no consensus decision.
EXAMPLE PARADIGM: hous "house": hous, housta, housen, housessa, housesta, housan, housella, houselta, houselle, housna, houseksi, housetta, housne; housi, housita, housin, housissa, housista, housian, housilla, housilta, housille, housina, housiksi, housitta, housine.
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On December 12th-16th 2066 the committee reconvened over a four-day period to discuss Stage 1b. In this substage, it was determined that English verb stems would be combined with endings derived from those of Latin and French.
Present tense:
sg || pl
1st: -o || -mus
2nd: -s || -tis
3rd: -t || -nt
Imperfect tense:
sg || pl
1st: -ai || -aimus
2nd: -ais || -aitis
3rd: -ait || -aint
Future tense:
sg || pl
1st: -ro || -ramus
2nd: -ras || -ratis
3rd: -rat || -rant
Conditional tense:
sg || pl
1st: -rai || -raimus
2nd: -rais || -raitis
3rd: -rait || -raint
The subjunctive and past historic were disregarded on the grounds of being unnecessary relics of a brutal imperialist past.
The perfect and pluperfect tenses were to be created with the present/imperfect forms of haver "to have" plus the past participle (usually -é, but -t for verb stems ending in a vowel).
Imperative: sg. -0, pl. -ez
Infinitive: -r
For verb stems not already ending in a vowel, it was decided that -e- would be added before endings beginning in a consonant. Where stems did end in a vowel, this would be deleted where the inflection began with a vowel.
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The completion of stage I meant that the first sentences in Qorbenic II could be generated by the Hidden Children, as follows:
Help meta! Help meta! Werella bo? Bet dark heressa and cano see nothingta. //// All human beingi bent borni equali dignitissa and rightissa. Bent endowéi reasonne and consciensne and shouldent acter wonanotherelle spiriten brotherhooden ... ////
Let usta gor down and confounder theyn speechta.
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Stage I of the project was thus declared successful, although it was seen that more work on Qorbenic II was still to be done.
Work on Qorbenic II commenced at 12:20am on 20th June, 2066. The initial goal was the fusing of English noun stems with regularised Finnish case and number endings. The endings in question were selected by the committee as follows:
Nominative: -0
Accusative: -ta (derived from the Finnish partitive. Researcher Groswald objected to this decision; he was outvoted and consequently defenestrated)
Genitive ("of") / Instructive ("with"/"using"): -n
Inessive ("in"): -ssa
Elative ("from"): -sta
Illative ("into"): -an
Adessive ("at, on"): -lla
Ablative ("from") -lta
Allative ("to, onto"): -lle
Essive ("as"): -na
Translative ("into", transformation): -ksi
Abessive ("without"): -tta
Comitative ("(together) with"): -ne
Plurals were to be formed with -i- (-j- between vowels) before the case ending. An experiment with nominative/accusative ending -t was deemed unsuccessful.
-e- was to be inserted before consonant-initial affixes in certain contexts, which were hotly debated with no consensus decision.
EXAMPLE PARADIGM: hous "house": hous, housta, housen, housessa, housesta, housan, housella, houselta, houselle, housna, houseksi, housetta, housne; housi, housita, housin, housissa, housista, housian, housilla, housilta, housille, housina, housiksi, housitta, housine.
==
On December 12th-16th 2066 the committee reconvened over a four-day period to discuss Stage 1b. In this substage, it was determined that English verb stems would be combined with endings derived from those of Latin and French.
Present tense:
sg || pl
1st: -o || -mus
2nd: -s || -tis
3rd: -t || -nt
Imperfect tense:
sg || pl
1st: -ai || -aimus
2nd: -ais || -aitis
3rd: -ait || -aint
Future tense:
sg || pl
1st: -ro || -ramus
2nd: -ras || -ratis
3rd: -rat || -rant
Conditional tense:
sg || pl
1st: -rai || -raimus
2nd: -rais || -raitis
3rd: -rait || -raint
The subjunctive and past historic were disregarded on the grounds of being unnecessary relics of a brutal imperialist past.
The perfect and pluperfect tenses were to be created with the present/imperfect forms of haver "to have" plus the past participle (usually -é, but -t for verb stems ending in a vowel).
Imperative: sg. -0, pl. -ez
Infinitive: -r
For verb stems not already ending in a vowel, it was decided that -e- would be added before endings beginning in a consonant. Where stems did end in a vowel, this would be deleted where the inflection began with a vowel.
===
The completion of stage I meant that the first sentences in Qorbenic II could be generated by the Hidden Children, as follows:
Help meta! Help meta! Werella bo? Bet dark heressa and cano see nothingta. //// All human beingi bent borni equali dignitissa and rightissa. Bent endowéi reasonne and consciensne and shouldent acter wonanotherelle spiriten brotherhooden ... ////
Let usta gor down and confounder theyn speechta.
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Stage I of the project was thus declared successful, although it was seen that more work on Qorbenic II was still to be done.