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Re: R: prepositions in Tok Pisin & Vivo (long)

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Monday, September 18, 2000, 18:11
In a message dated 2000:09:18 5:40:38 AM, you quotes me and you writes:

>> IN => 'at' (in same location as), > >> 'in' (located inside of) > >> EXO=> "from", "out of" , "away from" > >> "outside of" , "exterior" > >> CIRCA=> "around", "encircling" , "surrounding" > >> "near(by)", "close to" > >> SUR=> "on(to[p]", "touching" top, "on surface of" > >> TRANS=> "across" > >> "through" > >> AD=> "to(wards)", "(moving) at" > >> SOPRA=> "above", "over", "superimposed" > >> AVANTI=> before, in front of, ahead of (spatially) > >> RETRO=> behind, in back/rear of > >> INTRA=> between, among, amidst, inter- > >> SOTTO=> under, beneath > > > >Many of these sound perfectly Italian (in, circa, sopra, avanti, sotto). >Some others look latin: exo, ad... How did they arrive to Vivo? I can see >'sur' via French.
From international techno-scientific Greco-Latin... also I have totally mutated (well, started to) a lotta of the ortho-phonology. Making it like a real pidgin-creole would be like: almost unrecognizable to the source lexifier-language. i.e. Vivo linga => Viivo linga
> >> Mi 'tz grazi per du Tempo / Spazi nexi Materia ... > >> <<Thanx for your Time-&-Space in this Matter...>> > > > >
hehe... in the new orthography & syntax: Mii grazii du ne:x:ii Tempo / Spazii ne:x:i du ne:x:ii Mata, la... <Me thank you PREP. Time&Space POSS. you PREP. Mata END...> and... >Mi 'tz grazi per du informasi nexi Vivo linga. Mii grazii du ne:x:ii info ne:x:ii du ne:x:ii Viivo linga, la. czHANg