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Re: Tekem, the language (aka deriving verbs from nouns)

From:SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 18:59
--- Amanda Babcock <langs@...> wrote:
> Perhaps I got carried away, but I really wanted > ridiculously long words. > I've never really understood what it would be *like* > to speak a highly > synthetic language, and with some of the forms in > Japanese (for example, > verb-takunakutemo, which if I'm not mistaken should > mean something like > "although not wanting to verb") I got a little taste > of that and wanted to > explore it more.
That Japanese ending verb+ "takunakutemo" I think could also be translated (in some case, more accurately even) as "even if not wanting to" +verb, as in "gutaiteki ni iitakunakutemo, kamamaisen'yo" which would be "it's not a problem even if (you) don't want to say it in detail". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/