Re: Tiny lexicon languages
| From: | dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 1999, 4:38 |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Hawksinger wrote:
> > > Twenty-word sparrow language:
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. food
> > > 2. eat
> > > 3. sleep
> > > 4. mate
> > > 5. egg
> > > 6. chick
> > > 7. fly
> > > 8. perch
> > > 9. feather
> > > 10. danger
> > > 11. rival
> > > 12. fight
> > > 13. hurt
> > > 14. dead
> > > 15. ground
> > > 16. me
> > > 17. you
> > > 18. other
> > > 19. not
> > > 20. many
> > >
>
> hmmm, what about 'lay egg', I have to believe this is a big deal
> to a bird. Maybe you can combine hurt/dead or something???
Perhaps egg, number 5, can be used as a verb.