Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Verb-classifiers and preverbs.

From:David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
Date:Thursday, May 1, 2008, 23:08
Adam:
<<
But it's misplaced and uses the wrong relativizer, if
I've correctly understood your intended meaning.  "As
a word that didn't know each other" is non-sense.  So
I re-parsed it as "people who didn't
(frequently/ordinarily) communicate with each other".
If I've erred in re-parsing then I don't understand
you either.
 >>

Hmm...  Let's see:

> I've heard > people use it as a word that didn't communicate with each other > (so they couldn't have gotten it from one another).
I don't know about the wrong relativizer. You can just move it next to people and it's standard: I've heard people that didn't communicate with each other use it as a word. You can use "that" there; there's nothing wrong with it. As for MISplaced, well, that's a matter of opinion, isn't it? -David ******************************************************************* "A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a." "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." -Jim Morrison http://dedalvs.free.fr/