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Re: Mapwords

From:Harald Stoiber <stoiberh@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 9:50
Hello folks, :-))

The idea of mapwords has also attracted me but I dumped it
again since speakers and listeners would have to keep a
kind of mental "array" to hold information like a computer
does.

But I have a beautifully evil idea for Christophe's Maggel:
*hihi*

Introduce one kind of mapword which marks singular, dual,
separative plural (several separate elements) or
collective plural (several elements as an entirety)
on all nouns which will follow the mapword until the end
of the entire sentences. The mapword will mark ALL the
nouns - even across subclauses - in linear sequence. Case
will be marked on the nouns directly, thus, confusing the
receipient. *GGGGGG* *hehehe*

If it should be from the dark depth of hell then you can
introduce another mapword which marks case on the nouns
(you should have MANY different cases *ggg*) across all
subclauses but coming at the very end of the sentence.
*hehehe*

And if you really want to be a monster to the listeners,
then you only need to make the second mapword mention the
nouns in reverse order as compared to their occurrence in
the rest of the sentence or compared to their sequence in
the first mapword. *LOL*

Ok, enough kidding! ;-)))

Cheers,
Harald

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