Re: New Langage "Tyl-Seok": Similar ideas? (Was: Translation pattern of `to have'?)

En réponse à Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> > >  A2: That I know the man drives the car. (quite unlikely...)
>
> I meant `The car is driven by the fact that I know the man.' Which
> is an unlikely interpretation in this particular world.
>
Indeed, that's a strange interpretation. But well, in Notya it would be:

A2: I-PR-TE man-EX-CO know-PR-TE car-PR-TE

Quite strange...

> > He he, when I told you that the rule of Notya was underspecification
> :) , you
> > don't even have a word for "drive" (since when you use a car, it's
> usually to
> > drive it, not to carry it on your head :) ).
>
> Oh, yes, right.  I did not think that far.  I *have* to adopt that
> feature. :-) Simply drop the above word `drive' then and use `car' as
> a verb whose agent is `man'. :-) (I will run into some problems,
> though).
>
Probably, but that's the nice thing about Notya: all the potential problems that
it structure my cause, well it simply keeps them as they are! :) . The result is
a very difficult language to translate or to decipher, and thus perfectly
suitable for a secret society. You see, I was right when I talked of
underspecification :) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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