Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or ConCulture

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:26:46 -0500, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

> R A Brown <ray@...> writes:
>> What I would call 'idiomatic derivation' are things like "evue":
>>   e-   v-        u-  e
>> be-ASSOCIATION-one-AUGMENT = "corporation"
>
> Ok, I fully understand! :-O
Idiomatic, for sure, but no more so than the Latinate incorporate, which I
parse as something like into-body-become, and indeed corporation, which I
think is something like that_which_is_made_into-a_body.

There was a semi-recent bit on The Language Log about this, dealing with
the fallacy that Eskimo has no word for "robin" -- the converse of the
"100 words for snow" statement. I'll see whether I can dig it out, but I
have to leave the house now for an early Thanksgiving with the in-laws.




Paul