Re: USAGE: "Laughingly":What part of speech is it?
From: | Terrence Donnelly <pag000@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 5, 1998, 18:39 |
>> > He goes walkingly to the store.
>>
>> I really love "he goes walkingly to the store." It is SOOOOO Teonaht!
>> Okay, it's not really equivalent, but in T. you can say: "he at walking
>> swifts to the store," or "he at speaking glibbed to his friends."
>
>It's also very Lojban -
>
>ko'a cadzu klama le zarci
>he/she/it walking-type-of-go/come [to] the store
>
In my conlang, Vogu, participles are used adverbially a lot. In particular,
the future participle can render phrases of the type "in order to":
ulozhis hispita : S/he lays down to go to sleep (lit. s/he reclines
FUT-sleeping-ly)
-- Terry
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