Re: Karnnugaan isn't working

> >
> I encourage you to keep up. Rather than trying to
> come up with umpteen
> different nuances at once, why not concentrate on a
> few basic ones for
> starters? For example, you could start by being able
> to write sentences that
> incorporate the idea of "now the big x runs speedily
> towards the..." and
> continue on to "now the small x runs slowly..."
> later.
<snip>

> The short way of saying this is that just because it
> looks ambiguous to you,
> don't assume that (a) it's ambiguous to your
> conculture; (b) things which to
> you are not ambiguous are not to your conculture.
>
> Jeff
I expect I'll keep on with it.  And you're right.
Ambiguity per se is not a problem.  The problem is
that I designed the language to be deliberately
obscure and ambiguous, and it's working beyond my
wildest dreams!

One of the big problems I seem to have is that there
are no straightforward pronouns, so even saying "I see
the cat" is problematic.

There's a root which carries the meaning "self", but
this can indicate reflexivity in the verb as well as
the first person.  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.

Geoff

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