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Re: Languages without adjectives

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, March 27, 2000, 17:51
In a message dated 3/27/2000 10:36:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:

<< > ine ro tica, me yawelesa yu popor
 > [3s-DAT two knife, 1s-DAT 3s-give-PAST that dull].

 And here I read this as, "Unsexily, I gave you poppers and yaws."
 ("Yaws" is a minor venereal disease, caused by an organism related to the
 syphilis spirochete but not so nasty.) >>

First reaction: eh?  Second reaction: ha!  A new category,
scatoconlinguistics.  Alert Quang Phuc Dong!  I promise to practice safe
conlanging in future ;-P