--- Etak <tarnagona@...> wrote:
> I'll try and explain what I was thinking.
> Suppose
> you were in a dark room and you said, "I can't
> see. I
> need light." Now I was thinking that using my
> tonal
> language you might have the noun "light" and
> the verb
> "to see" as the same word with different tones.
Don't see why you can't do that.
> I
> want to make my language inflecting too. So
> you might
> be able to say, "I can't see. I need light/to
> see,"
> because you would use the infinitive form of
> the verb
> "to see" but with the tone that says that the
> word is actually "light".
Mightn't that be interpreted as "I need to light"
then?
Padraic.
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