Re: What did Rodlox do? (was: Tagalog & trigger idea: I'd like comments. :)

----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:15 PM
Subject: What did Rodlox do?

 Me no know.

> The only thing that changes is _a_, _o_ and _u_. Therefore, I would deduce
> that _a_ = '(to) see', _o_ = '(to) fear' and _u_ = '(to) seek'. In other
> words that what you are doing with the three opening letters is using
> three different monosyllabic verbs.
>
> Of the other two words, I would consider there are two likely analyses:
> _ether_
 interesting.  fascinating.  super-cool.

> I would be wishing that there were interlinear glosses   :)
 and there will be...once I understand what I'm doing, so I don't mislabel
something, thus thereby giving birth to a huge debate over the proper term
for what I had called [insert random name].  :)

 sorry.