Re: Offensive stress (was: those irregular prepositions)

Play often means to play somethng, or to be played..

Depends on circumstances..

Like a Player can be someone playing a game like Volleyball, but
also can be one who is playing people, such as a guy who is
playing the ladies, they think he is quality, but he is a player
aka Dog or just a male slut... Women do it as well and same word
is often used..

Or a variation, Player or Playa.. Like the two words that mean
black, one has an "-er" and the other has a "-a" on the end of
it..

Depends alot on how the world and when and by who the word is
used.

Does raise a question.

How to create words or stucture that shows situations and such?
And by who is using it? Or best to leave words like that to
being in house/in group/etc?

Like Play = Play a Game but a sport or like game, and not one
like Play = going to a bar or like and playing some guy/gal to
get some play (get the guy or gals notices and her/he to come
over and flirt/dance/etc).

I know in English, we use alot of French or Latin forms, with
some Greek forms to create new words and who how things are and
by who, who is the subject, object and such?

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <rfmilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Offensive stress (was: those irregular
prepositions)


> <begin Cross/Crown> Maybe it's just my twisted Liberal (var.
Americanus)
> mind, but I found Mike's word play quite apt....(and as a
matter of fact,
> I've heard it, maybe even used it, before).
>
> We do talk about pro and con = for and against. And our
Congress is indeed
> against what lots of us think ought to be Progress. (And
non-liberals
> sometimes think so too.)
> </Cross/Crown>