"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
- Goethe
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I dreamt up the basis for Peto one day when Jonah brought up the "indexical I." With certain verbs, I is nearly an adverb -- the action is really not person-specific; it just happens to be being done by me. I was thinking about a pronimal system that would specify between intent and happenstance. I wrote up a table of pronouns, and set out to create a language around it. My first attempt was a nice little complex grammar based around Hebrew with a Finnish look to the orthography. I called it Pathòa, after the Finnish word "to speak." When I started to talk to Lessa and Sala about the project, I decided the grammar was far too difficult and Fordsmendrian for its own good. I went through a mass simplification, and after the creation of the message board, and with lots of help from Sala, Lessa, and Sama, Peto was born.
Peto is currently undergoing expansion and some grammatical change. The dictionary and the grammar given here are not one hundred percent accurate as of now.
Semënov is my personal hero and an inspiration. I strongly suggest everyone take a look at my S.S. page and learn a little more about this fantastically amazing man. You can reach the page by clicking on the above picture.
Frederick Douglass
abolitionist, philosopher, orator.
Douglass shares the title with Semënov as my favorite historical figure. I first grew interested in him when I ran across his speech What the Black Man Wants and ever since I've grown more enamored with his political philosophy, his morals and his liberality, and of course his writing.
