Re: a "natural language" ?

Hi!

Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> writes:
>...
> What about something like Tok Pisin, with its vocabulary kind of "bilong
> Inglis" all "gan bagarap"?
Oh, I love that language! :-)

>...
> But I guess you're mostly meaning weirdnesses of grammar or structure.  For
> that, any tonal language gets my vote.  Tones freak me out and I don't
> really understand them.
Then never try to learn Taiwanese, which has the full load (and more)!
:-) IIRC, eight phonemic tones, but sixteen tone realisation on the
surface with tone sandhi rules that involve the previous and the
subsequent syllable.  :-)

**Henrik

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