Re: Tekem, the language (aka deriving verbs from nouns)
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 0:47 |
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:58:24PM -0700, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> Actually, after reading this I'm most concerned about the morphology. The
> phonology seems rather reasonable, but the morphology you've created seems
> to go too far with a single root. You wind up with rediculously long
> words for common things, whereas in any natural language those words would
> have their own roots or at least have shorter derivations.
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.
Besides, the words'll look a lot shorter once I invent a syllabary for it :)
Amanda
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