Re: A wacky language
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 5, 2004, 6:11 |
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On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
[snip]
>> Your adpositions should be impositions (ie, go in the middle of the word)
>> .
>
> Doesn't that make them infixes? Or I guess not, while 'in a dog' could be
> 'doing',
Wacky.
> 'in a big dog' could be 'big in dog', couldn't it?
Er, sort of like Latin 'magno in cane'? I would think something sanctioned
by
Classical Latin is automatically disqualified from wackiness.
Ray
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