Re: slaalehg ihkreen (was Re: Hullo

>>"Stone", not "Steve". :-)
>Oops! Sorry about that Stone =)
No big deal. "Stone" is an somewhat unusual first name. You should see what
people do with "Geoffrey" and Gordonssen". :-)

>>>they sound very un-serpentlike for the most part. It is mostly a pared
>>>down 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
>>Ah, well, was worth asking.
For now, I've picked the following for Laafaah:
03 vowels: [A], [1], [M]
24 initial consonants and clusters: [p], [ps], [p\], [p\:], [s], [s:], [S],
[S:], [s`], [C], [s_}], [x], [h], [W], [j], [K], [L], [t], [t_}], [t_s],
[t_s:], [c], [t`], [n], [n:]
00 terminal consonants and clusters: [ps], [ps:], [p\], [p\:], [s], [s:],
[S], [S:], [x], [h], [K], [L], [t], [t_s], [t_s:], [n], [n:] [ns], [ns:]

>>>follows strict SVO, SV, or S. Adjectives and prepositions can be formed
>>>from the nouns or verbs, and they can be recursive. Secondary (and
>>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.
Ah, I understand.

>Secondary object example:
>"The fox gave a flower to the rat"
>"(fox) ((gave) (flower)) (rat)"
>"traafloot erdenoet nizayd feefleed"
Cool. I've considered doing something vaguely similar in the past, but
abandoned it as in approprite for my 3 existing conlangs.


>"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"
Humor me here. Instead of
((given) (me)) (traveller))
I'd have expected
(((given) (traveller)) (me)).

Also, would
(fox) (((gave) ((traveller) (((gave)(flower)) (me))) (rat))*
mean
"The fox gave the rat the traveller who gave me the flower"?

*I've not used so many parens since I coded in LISP at the university
computing centre. :-)

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