Re: How to do "But/However"

* Harald S. said on 2006-03-12 18:20:57 +0100
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:04:59 +0100, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-
> conlang@NVG.ORG> wrote:
>
> > In all the Indo-European languages I've had a look at, "but/however"
> > are standalone words. In logic/semantics, "but" is considered yet
> > another "and". The difference in using "but" instead of "and" is
> > that the "but" says that something else was expected than what
> > actually happened.
> >
> > a) X and Y.
> > b) X, expected Y but got Z.
>
> So, what about converting a conjunction to an adverb meaning
> "contrariwise" in the next sentence?
Ah, Taruven is supposed to have extremely few of the "weird" adverbs and
exceptionfull small words like "that" etc., ditto for conjunctions,
subjunctions, particles etc. It does have a class of words that can only
go at the start of a sentence though... Hm...


t.