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Re: Genitive Relationships again

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, March 15, 1999, 3:06
Gary Shannon wrote:
> What if something as simple as a vowel somewhere within the word that takes > on various values to denote who posses the object? Say, for example, that > the word "dashni" means "generic widget", then "doshni" might me "my > widget".
That's essentially an infix, then. Good idea, tho, but not what Sally Caves was referring to. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor