Re: New Ideas... group project?

Herman Miller wrote:

> My latest project, Hlererhoi, is turning out to be a language that uses
> verb roots for everything instead of noun roots. Thus, for instance,
> instead of a word for "mouse", there is a word that means "to be a mouse"
> (tirim). To translate "The mouse is gray", Hlererhoi would say "zarhi e
> tira" [is-gray that-which is-a-mouse]. If an intransitive verb such as
> "gray" is used transitively, it has a causative meaning, "to make gray".
> Although it would be strange to use a transitive form of "mouse", it's
> certainly possible (at least as a metaphor if nothing else).
Loglan/Lojban is also a language of this class, but using explicit
articles to transmute its verbs into noun phrases.  Transitivity
in Lojban is not really parallel, though:  the 2-place version of
"mouse" means "is a mouse of species/breed ...".

Anyway, didn't the ogre in Puss-in-Boots mouse himself?

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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)