Re: Basic vocabulary when starting a conlang
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 31, 2002, 19:54 |
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:47:56PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Aug/31/2002, Philip Newton wrote:
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> > duplicate. For example, there are a number of languages which need no
> > copula (so "I doctor" means "I *am* a doctor"), so "to be" is not
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> Ehm ... "copula"? :-m I'm afraid I don't know what it means O:-)
[snip]
A "copula" is like the English verb "to be" ("is", "are", "were", "been",
and its various forms). Or like the Spanish "este"(sp?). Believe it or
not, not every language has a copula.
T
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