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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 (Outdated, probably archaic) paradigm: 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