Re: Universal Translation Language

> Adjectives seem to come from both genitives and verbs,
> or sometimes just from vague randomness. They can take cases,
> plurals, tenses, degrees ... What can't they do?
> The only limit is that they are "secondaries", not primaries
> like nouns and verbs, not tertiaries like adverbs.
> That is my best understanding of this enigmatic species.
In my system they're just secondary subject-links (as opposed to object-lin=
ks).
There is only circumstantial difference between any of the parts of speech
including adjectives.  For instance, lin m=EFdo means "to adhere to; stick =
to".
M=EFda means "adheres; is adhering", m=EFde is the same thing except that i=
t's
an adjective rather than the center of the statement, the verb.  Plain m=EF=
d
means "something which is adhering".  As always such a description may be
either inessential or essential, which is indicated by an -es (man I hate i=
t
when these little pseudo-correspondencies crop up; -es really has nothing t=
o
do with English "essential"!) or the lack thereof, respectively.  M=EFdes,
then, means more or less "something which happens to be adhering to somethi=
ng
else".  There are times when this distinction is very important, for instan=
ce,
to remove all "n=EFren=EF an'm=EFde" is something very different from remov=
ing all
"n=EFren=EF an'm=EFdese" -- the former indicates the removal of all loose t=
eeth,
the second the removal of all teeth (which, we assert as a separate stateme=
nt,
are loose -- but this means only that most, not all of them, are so)!


> > Oops: by=EBlvi=F1ayn=EF, not that anyone noticed ;)
>=20
> Wrong.
Wow, good observation.  I only recall posting one time to CONLANG about
adjective objects, and they aren't documented on my language pages.  Glad
the diacritics survived the trip; I usually don't type special characters
anymore when writing to CONLANG, to avoid the sad effects of conflicting
encoding schemes between mail clients.

Josh

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