Re: Karnnugaan isn't working
From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2007, 10:23 |
--- MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 7/11/2007 5:36:54 AM Central
> Daylight Time,
> geoffhorswood@YAHOO.CO.UK writes:
>
>
> > And so far I don't have anything
> > approximating the second person at all. I hate to
> > create another root (Oligosynthesis is another
> thing
> > I'm trying for) unless it can do multiple duties.
> >
>
> If "self" can be used for first person, how about
> something like "not-self"
> (i.e., 'other') for second and/or third person?
>
I guess I could. But using the negation modifier and
the self modifier can also become a unit meaning "I
didn't do X" or similar. I suppose the thing to do is
to encode such differentiation in the stacking order
of the modifiers.
Geoff
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