Dogean Wordstock and Lexicon
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Classical Dogespeak is primarily composed of three main lexical word classes: determiners, nouns, and interjections.
Nouns and Determiners make up the bulk of a typical Dogespeak sentence. Nouns are divided into two classes, which classify what determiners are allowed to be placed on a particular noun, "much", for count nouns, and "many", for non-count nouns. It is noted that this is the reverse of what you would expect of traditional Standard English, a process known as "Doge-Reversal". Determiners are obligatory on all Dogespeak nouns. A noun and its determiner can stand alone in an existential statement. In a nominal phrase, a copula is used, or a line break or "broken statement" is used (more commonly found in Traditional Dogespeak.)
Interjections are the most distinctive of DogespeacheansA term referring to the specific words and phrases primarily used in Dogespeak, short phrases like "wow" (the most common), or "alert", that generally are used to the set the tone of a particular discourse. Interjections are used very frequently throughout Dogespeak, and the avoidance of them is generally seen as rude and uneducated, especially among the higher class.
The three main classes are the only ones used in formal usage, but when translating out of human languages it becomes necessary to use imported loanwords from English.
Pronouns work similarly to English. In order, they are u, we, i, and dey. Noted is the loss of English "he" and "she", which is a result of the Total Annihilation of Gender Norms in 2018 CE. Possessive forms are ur, our, my, and deir.
Verbs are nearly identical to their English forms. Verbs are generally meant to be avoided, using their noun forms where possible, with the noted exception of imperative statements. Generally speaking, the more verbs are avoided, the more formal it is in Dogespeak.
Adjectives are identical in English. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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