Proposals for the Next Arestadâ

[Xhorxh Asmour]

As the upcoming Arestadâ is almost ready, I’d like to announce a few new items we’ve been working on for the NEXT Arestadâ:

1.Flyswatter words
2.Consonant mutation
3.The difference between cün and avetz
4.On noun genders, including on gender-changing nouns and establishing a list of nouns with irregular gender (now that the terminal -â will be gone)
5.A replacement word for cearéinçe in the context of the GV&SP's list of words with irregular pronunciation.
6.To deprecate tgúsund (thousand) in favour of mil. Ben and Tomás discussed this change back in early 2003, but it was never formalized.
7.The cardinal directions (north, south, east, west). Some of the new words coined by Ben and/or Tomás but never officially approved were better than the old ones.
8.We need to put out a Pienamáintsch to the Treisoûr listing all the words that have come up since the last Pienamáintsch.
9.Prepositions: difference between cün and avetz and between súper and sür. With all the other prepositions available, is it time to deprecate över and på (even SG 2nd Edition says that "the learner may do well not to use på at all")?

Xhorxh Asmoûr
CÚG President

[Dréu Gavárþic'h]

May I suggest, to his majesty's delight, that the verb "entrenar" be eradicated, as it is derived from English.

[Hooligan]

The royal patron of the CÚG adds the following trio to the list:

1. Vienarh needs more tenses, so we can do "recent future", "recent past perfect" and such.

2. No way vienarh and iarh are distinct (in meaning) in the infinitive but in no other form.

3. No way the only verb in the whole language that has a 1st-person-plural form is "starh".

Not that I wish to speak for the patron, but just to keep this thread informed.

Hooligan