Re: Building up a FAQ: Please reply

First off, and unrelated, is there any way to avoid another blockage of this
list?  (Of course, finally receiving 100plus msgs. and sending, so far, 6
replies, doesn't help.....) Four days of silence is horribible.
Self-restraint? Self-censorship? Or increase the daily limit? (Don't raise
the bridge, lower the water or some such)

Now:
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>:
>
>> Lets build a wordlist for this mailing list!
>OK!
snippies.......

 This is a Good Idea.  I haven't checked this, but could we post this and
related FAQ  in the Files section of the Yahoo archive?

(snips)
>morphology (linguistic): the rules that govern the structure of a syllable,
and
>how can sounds be put together in speech.
Umm. I think that is "phonotactics", a part of phonology.
"Morphology" (in my book) would be concerned with the (possibly
multi-phonemic) building-blocks that make up lexical items/words-- base
forms, affixes, etc.


(More snips)
>For the moods, I'm less secure, so I'll define only the main ones:
>ind. (linguistic): indicative: indicates that the action is real, or
supposed
>so.
>subj. (linguistic): subjunctive: indicates that there is a doubt as for the
>reality of the action.
This might be aN IE-centric definition; a subjunctive form _might_ be used
in any subordinated clause, in some language or other; though I don't know
of any.  Does Finnish or Hungarian, or Semiti/Afro-Asiatic, have anything
like a "subjunctive"?

Dont forget _Imperative_ for giving commands

And (in the snipped portion) _Semantics_ (can it be defined????)

>Well, feel free to edit my definitions, I'm not always very good at finding
the
>right words :(( .
Au contraire!

OT amusing locutions dept.:  a while back we were discussing "shoe flower
man" here; now the news is full of "shoe bomb suspect", and our President
has a "pretzel scrape" on his face (so says my Yahoo news report). Has
anyone thought about how these could be said, if at all,  in other
nat/conlangs? (Opening a can of worms.....)

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