Re: Indonesian and Esperanto

From: Radovan Garabik (garabik_at_kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: 15 Jul 2004 13:49:05 GMT

"Bill Bonde ( ``There's sunshine in my stomach'' )" <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
> Is this that radically different from 'yesterday', 'today' and
> 'tomorrow'? What would be interesting would be to see tense attached to
> nouns. A language like that might not be comprehensible to humans. Who
> knows?

Volapük uses (used) tenses with nouns. adel, odel, udel etc... 

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