Re: Lunatic Survey

     Sorry this response is so late.

Pablo Flores <fflores@...> wrote:
> How does Gladilatian have no verbs?
> I tried to do this some time ago in Tomoulini Ganmaa, an humanoid alien
> language. It worked, to a certain extent. In TG, words are usually
> marked with suffixes indicating their function in the statement.
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> Is this how Gladilatian works?
     No.  In Gladilatian a word's function in the statement is determined=
 by
part of speech and word order.
     Every Gladilatian sentence is a copula, i.e. it contains an implicit
"to be".  Thoughts expressed as verbs in English are treated a number of
ways in Gladilatian.  For "I am building this." Gladilatian says, "I [am]
the builder of this." ("Fmu mzanrau nvet").  For "It is changing," "It =
[is]
a changing one." ("Hou xvau").  For "I see you," "I [am] the user of =
sight
directed at you." ("Fmu mzanapu hyaehna u."), with "user of" and =
"directed
at" expressed by prepositions.  The equivalent of tense markers are =
attached
to nouns (usually), so "I will change." would be literally "The future I
[is] a changing one" ("Srefmu xvau.").  (There is no syntactic =
distinction
between nouns and pronouns.)

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
        Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse =
96-99