Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:11:24 -0000 Eruanno none <eruanno@...>
writes:
> = This (ETC) ====================================================
>
> What would be a couple of different ways for my langauge to express
> the
> This, That, Those, and such ( I apologize, for I cannot remember the
> exact
> name of these ).
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Well, you could have one word for all of them.
Or you could have any number of distinctions ~ this/that; este/ese/aquel,
etc...
You could make them different than your native language's uses.  For
instance, like English, Rokbeigalmki has two - _dhaz_ "this" and _dhu_
"that".  however, _dhaz_ is only used for something immediately at hand.
If you can't reach out and touch it, or it's not laying at your feet,
it's _dhu_, as opposed to English where "this" has a somewhat wider
range.
Or you could use pronouns, like how Hebrew has _hazeh_ for "this" but
_hahu_ (literally "the he") for "that"

> = PARTICLES =====================================================
>
> Could someone give me an example a langauge without particles?
> I don't know if I HAVE TO have them, for if not, I don't want them.
>
> What uses do particles have?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "particles".  Is it some kind of technical
linguistics term that i don't know yet?  When writing my new website, i
used "particle" to mean anything i couldn't fit into a real category.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Word making is world making."
     ~ _The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis_
          by Avivah Zornberg

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> Eruanno
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