Re: Ideas for deriving verbs from nouns

Amanda Babcock wrote:

> Or languages where there
> is no distinction between nouns and verbs, but the core words are more
> nounlike than verblike (unlike Lojban, where gismu feel more like verbs
> than nouns to me).  There are a lot of conlangs out there, and if someone's
> already done this I'd love to look at their work :)  I think I just need to
> break through a conceptual barrier here.
AllNoun is the ultimate in this direction: the language is literally all
nouns, except for five particles.  AllNoun imports the whole English
noun vocabulary, although a unique vocabulary could be created from it.

AllNoun's creator Tom Breton says that he doesn't work on it any more,
but information is available at http://world.std.com/~tob/allnoun.htm .


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