Re: Conculturish question Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar

mathias>>>>>>
/snip amusing account of tunu law/

that's why i would not post any tunuan receipe like Steg was thinking
of doing it with snake trees.
<<<<<<mathias
Indeed.  A very sound principle.

mathias>>>>>>
<<<<<
I think Wenetaic is going to try and exist with neither (true) copula nor
passivity.  If a man bites a dog, it's a single event in semantic space, to a
Wenetaar, "looking at it from another direction" would seem pointless and
tautological.  I'll probably have to give in and accept some auxiliaries,
though.  You've set me thinking... more later...
>>>>>
you made me think too. actually i never use passive,
except for verbs that have no specific result, agent, patient, etc.
like "to hit" (different from "to make a blow").
the reason is that former tunu grammar was like weneatic :

"to-bucket by-water done.by-man"

so i understand what you mean.
<<<<<<mathias
I had to blink a few times before I saw this.  The example you gave is from my
meina'n posting, (and your version looks superficially more like meina'n
grammar) so I wasn't sure who was misunderstanding whom for a second or two,
then I realised it was neither of us.<G>   On further reflection, I realise
you've used dots and dashes "the other way round" from my normal usage.

mathias>>>>>>
so i changed tunu today by making indirect passive as "verb + wo" ("by"),
which eliminates the heavy passive voice (like "poco" > "po-poco-poco") :
<<<<<<mathias

Thank you for doing that.  I'd have started to come down with "dilingo syndrome"
if I'd tried speaking tunu for too long a period.<G>  I fear I still may...

OFF: How real do other people find the "dilingo effect" to be?  How linked is it
to Sapir-Whorf?  Is there anything else that produces it as consistently?

http://www.dilingo.com/






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