| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 20, 2006, 1:49 |
caeruleancentaur wrote:> How do you express the concept "the...the..." as in "the more, the > merrier" in your conlangs. Senjecas does not have the definite > article, so I'm looking for some suggestions.I don't think it really has anything to do with definiteness; the English expression is just weird. Think about different ways of expressing correlation. Something along the lines of "more implies merrier", "if more, then merrier", "for every bit more, there is a corresponding bit merrier".
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