Re: slaalehg ihkreen (was Re: Hullo
| From: | Matt Trinsic <trinsic@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 21:43 |
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Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>> Steve, unfortunately, I dont think my sounds could help you much, as
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> "Stone", not "Steve". :-)
Oops! Sorry about that Stone =)
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>> they sound very un-serpentlike for the most part. It is mostly a pared
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>> selection of english sounds (kr, z, fl, v, th, k, f, n, d, t, g, tr,
>> s, sl,
>> l, ft, st, and sh). The grammer is a bit more unusual. It
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> Ah, well, was worth asking.
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>> follows strict SVO, SV, or S. Adjectives and prepositions can be formed
>> from the nouns or verbs, and they can be recursive. Secondary (and
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> Tell me what you mean by "recursive"?
That is, adjectives can have adjectives and prepositions of their own,
as I will attempt to describe below.
>> tertiary? Does such a thing exist?) objects would typically be part of
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>> prepositional verb. I hope that makes sense.
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> I believe that I follow you, but could you provide an example from slaalehg
> ihkeen?
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Sure.
Secondary object example:
"The fox gave a flower to the rat"
"(fox) ((gave) (flower)) (rat)"
"traafloot erdenoet nizayd feefleed"
The 'er' vowel before the verb (or an 'or' before a noun) makes it into
a preposition. However, In slaalehg ihkreen, prepositions do not have to
modify another word, they can stand on their own. That is, "liediv"
means 'traveller' and the prepositional form of it "orliediv" would mean
'one that travels ... '. It would be incomplete without a target
sentance of some kind, such as the flower in the earlier example (one
word sentances are perfectly acceptable in slaalehg). However, because
the target of the preposition is considered a sentance on its own right,
it can be just as complex as any other sentance (which is where the
recursion comes in). So if you wanted to say a bit more about the
flower, you could try
"the fox gave the rat the flower that had been given to me by the traveler"
"(fox) ((gave) ((flower) ((given) (me)) (traveller))) (rat)"
"traafloot erdenoet nizayt erdenoek liez liediv feefleed"
Adjective recursion is somewhat different, as they cannot stand on their
own but must modify something. The vowels 'ih' and 'eh' mark nouns and
verbs as the start of an adjective clause.