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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

Conlangery Podcast

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Is There a Romance Language in English?

The language takes in the intersection of a bunch of romance languages in English. What comes out is inter-lingua, which as I say, and my first note is awfully dull. They have Don Nous Haudier, no story, Pong, Quotidion. But there are grammars of it, but they've taken out everything. There's no inflectional morphology, except plurals. The verbs are dead simple. And even that's not as well defined as I might care for.

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