From: "Amanda Babcock" <langs@...>
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:31:27PM -0400, Muke Tever wrote:
>
> > True, but I think that was the example's idea. In an language where
adjectives
> > follow nouns you could have:
> >
> > Juan llamó el gato feo.
> > John called the cat ugly
> > "John called the ugly cat/John called the cat ugly."
> >
> > I suppose this would be possible? It would be ambiguous without having to
> > change the word order.
>
> To me, these two examples of "call" are two separate words, and would be
> separate words in a conlang, unless I wanted it to be a European conlang.
"Interesting you should say that," said the old lady.
*Muke!