Old Carmanian used to have two different grammars.
One was the Day-Syntax. It was ordered and had declensions and a complex hierarchy of social propriety.
The other was the Night-Paratax which deliberately transgresses all the rules of the Day-Morphology and has even some influence of the Uz lexicon. All the words are by default feminine. Some barbarisms of the Day Grammar became almost "rules" in the other side of the language.
Some poets and philosophers use an alternating pattern of the two grammars in the same text.
In modern Carmanian, the Dark Grammar has been repressed and leaves only a few vestiges which are considered a little obscene.
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