Re: Re : Re: Conculturish question Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar

mathias>>>>>>
Dans un courrier dat? du 26/10/99 18:59:15  , Paul a ?crit :

> OFF: How real do other people find the "dilingo effect" to be?  How linked
is
> it
>  to Sapir-Whorf?  Is there anything else that produces it as consistently?
>
>  http://www.dilingo.com/
reduplication - whether full or partial - has been a natural feature of
sumerian and is still in all austronesian, chinese, malayo-polynesian
and many african languages.
<<<<<<mathias

Yes.  There's a set of partial reduplications buried in the Wenetaic root
system, if you look hard enough.  Perhaps Proto-W. was a reduplicating language?

My point about the DiLingo effect was more in relation to the physiological
effects caused by certain linguistic forms.  The website mentions (as an aside,
on the "Before you Begin" page) certain physical sensations that I'd started to
feel while reading the examples (and before I'd read that aside).  Although it's
hard sometimes to see where the author has inserted grains of truth, (though
grains of insight are easier to spot) I think that this may (on one level) be
linked somehow to the truth, though the reason he gives for it is a bit
questionable.







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