Re: Languages without adjectives
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 27, 2000, 17:51 |
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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