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Re: "triggers et al" as I presently understand them

From:Rodlox <rodlox@...>
Date:Friday, November 19, 2004, 15:37
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From: Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
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Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: "triggers et al" as I presently understand them


> On Thursday, November 18, 2004, at 08:45 , Rodlox wrote: > > > it bounced since I was over my 5 limit...re-trying... > > > > > >> okay, I'll be going in chronological order here... > >> > >> *TRIGGERS > >> at first, I thought that the letter starting the sentance could modify
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> >> = > >> word to a vastly different meaning (leading to that sketchlang where = > >> 'ukku meant see/fear/seek)... > > Oh. I clearly misunderstood your example.
sorry.
> On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 10:38 , Rodlox wrote: > [snip] > > also, I've become given to understand that a trigger doesn't simply > > modify > > a word (run/ran/running), but it changes the word's entire meaning. > > > > 'ukku = I, you > > a 'ukku ayn = I see you > > o 'ukku ayn = I fear you > > u 'ukku ayn = I seek (pursue) you > > 'ikku = I, you. > > Now you say "where ='ukku meant see/fear/seek)...". So how are we to parse > your sentences if the meaning of _'ukku_ changes from "I, you" on 16th > November to "see/fear/seek" just two days later?
parse thusly: me got bad memory.
> >> ..then I came to understand that it [the "trigger"] simply chooses = > >> between the forms of something (rather like the Neteru of Ancient = > >> Egypt)...ie, pen/write/language/script...etc. > > ?? Where did you understand this from?
I think the example provided (no, don't remember which post) had writing, pen, and other related items under a single word, which could be specified which one by use of a (trigger(?)) word.
> >> *FRONTING > >> this was one that confused me for a while, since it said that...well,
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> >> like in "Ted ran away to the far off tree", that _Ted_ modified = > >> _ran_.....and that, to me, made no sense. > > It probably makes no sense to anyone else either. > > Who or what is "it" who allegedly said this?
don't remember.
> >> I would have thought that the time-tense modified _ran_ (making it = > >> something other than, for example, _runs_), or that _ran_ was modified
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> >> by _away_ or the destination (somehow being affected by _the far off = > >> tree_). > > Eh? What? _ran_ is the simple past tense (sometimes called the 'preterite' > ) of the verb "to run".
yes, but if a language were to have both "to run" and "past tense" next to one another, one could say that the latter modifies the former, yes?

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