Re: THEORY: questions

Hi!

Kenji Schwarz <lehelejui@...> writes:
> --- David Peterson <DigitalScream@...> wrote:
> > - Why a separate word? Why any marking at all? >>
> >
> >     Is there any natural language without one?
>
> Manchu, for one.
Interesting!  No coordination particle/conjuction at all?  Very cool
indeed.

Because, I noticed that when translating into Tyl-Sjok, which only has
*one* coordination particle for all sorts of links between sentences
(and, or, although, but, ...), I can never decide whether to use it or
to go for two sentences.  Tyl Sjok drops everything anyway so usually,
I drop the coordination particle.  But not always.

With this additional information, namely that languages don't need
coordination particles, I think I'll have to drop the particle from
Tyl-Sjok.

At least, I will think about this...

**Henrik

PS: Tyl-Sjok has means of expressing conjuction, disjunction, etc, of
    course.  With words like `also', `alternatively', `in contrast to
    that', `in the same way', etc.