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I swear to God, by the time the Romans got to the forth declension, they just ran out of imagination, didn't they? All the endings are the same, or borrowed from one of the other declensions.
“Hey Figaro, I got -us, and -ui for the nominative, genitive and dative, what’d you come up with for the accusative?”
“Um. . . ”
“Great, we can slip another -us in for the nominative plural, and carry the –us from the accusative singular down, if we slide the letters back, and flip the morphology around, and I dunno, I’m just thinking aloud here, but we could maybe chuck one of those old –ibuses in from third declension, you know, for the ablative and dative plurals, but, hmmm, crap, that still leaves us short of a genitive plural. . . . . What do you think about –pip, or kip, or even -fucker?”
“Uum. . . “
“Awesome, even better, genufucker sounds a bit wrong for a knee, doesn't it?”
I mean for fuck’s sake people, you had a thousand years to knock together something a little more exciting than, us, ui, um, ibus, and uum. Great job on the participle and the subjunctive though. Bright, lurid, exciting, and difficult. They’ll be fucking with people’s heads for years to come :)
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Ancient Roman Grammar Lab.
“Hey Figaro, I got -us, and -ui for the nominative, genitive and dative, what’d you come up with for the accusative?”
“Um. . . ”
“Great, we can slip another -us in for the nominative plural, and carry the –us from the accusative singular down, if we slide the letters back, and flip the morphology around, and I dunno, I’m just thinking aloud here, but we could maybe chuck one of those old –ibuses in from third declension, you know, for the ablative and dative plurals, but, hmmm, crap, that still leaves us short of a genitive plural. . . . . What do you think about –pip, or kip, or even -fucker?”
“Uum. . . “
“Awesome, even better, genufucker sounds a bit wrong for a knee, doesn't it?”
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I mean for fuck’s sake people, you had a thousand years to knock together something a little more exciting than, us, ui, um, ibus, and uum. Great job on the participle and the subjunctive though. Bright, lurid, exciting, and difficult. They’ll be fucking with people’s heads for years to come :)
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