Re: relay 1: Czevraqis vocbulary details, 1/3 et seq
From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, August 22, 2001, 23:52 |
On Wednesday, August 22, 2001, at 04:30 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
>> (Outdated, probably archaic) paradigm:
>>
>> verb: C_CaCu
>> adj: C_CiCu
>> noun: CeC_Ca
>>
>> verb/adj infix noun
>> ======================================
>> generic -e- state
>> causative -ae- doer (professional)
>> instrumental -a- tool
>> habitual -ai- doer (casual)
>> intensive -o- emphatic
>> attenuative -i- diminutive
>
> A very nice system, exhibiting very interesting explorations of the
> semantic
> range of the various concepts. Some of your derivations are quite
> beautiful.
>>
<blush> Thank you. It's a lot of fun, too.
>> meranu: to search/discover, find
>> adj: inquisitive
>> state: discovery
>> doer (prof): explorer
>> doer (cas): child (especially at the ages when they're busy Getting Into
>> Things, I suppose)
>> tool: curiosity
>> emphatic: expedition
>> diminutive: insight, what happens when the glasses you are looking for
>> are
>> right in front of you
>
> The only problem I have with derivational systems like this (and
> Indonesian
> and Kash are guilty, too) is that sometimes you end up repeating the same
> root more times than is considered desirable (in English stylistics at any
> rate)... For example, how would you say "the inquisitive child of the
> explorer on the expedition....", or are synonyms available?
>
<rueful look> Yeah--there's a similarly troublesome cluster of concepts
around "swift," "horse" and "wind," among other things. I imagine there
are a lot of Awful Tongue Twisters. <wry g> I would like to eventually
have synonyms (with varying connotations, of course) and also terms formed
by compounding processes, then (sometimes)
truncuated/abbreviation/mutilated. The only problem with this grand
scheme is, as ever, time. :-)
> Obvious solution: repetition is a PLUS in X stylistics.
>
=^) I imagine so!
What are your favourite word-clusters in Kash?
YHL