Re: A question about connecting sentences

            Hey everybody...

                I've been lurking for a while, just really enjoying the
fact that there's a place I can say 'I'm creating a language' without
the response of 'What? Are you insane? You can't do that! blahblahblah'
:) Anyway, I was working on a language, and I wanted to ask for
suggestions. The language, 'Bitha', for now is mostly agglutinative,
with suffixes, infixes and prefixes, and a SVO word order. The thing I'm
having trouble is with sticking two verbs in a sentence, like the
english "I want to go home." Here's the ideas I've had so far...

Ju mi yia'di vidh itsu ju mi baidi vidh itsiratsah.

Ju(I-pron) mi(tense marker #1-affirmative) yia'di(want-verb) vidh(tense
marker #2-present) itsu(that-pron) ju(I-pron) mi(tense marker #1)
biadi(verb-go) vidh(tense marker) itsira(noun-home) -tsah(preposition
marker-to)

That seemed ok, but it ends up a little long, so I tried this...

Ju mi yia'di vidh itsu midzi baidai vidh itsiratsah.
Ju(I-pron) mi(tense marker #1-affirmative) yia'di(want-verb) vidh(tense
marker #2 present) itsu(pron- that) midzi(tense marker #1-
affirmative+participle (mi + infix -idz-))  baidai (go-verb) vidh(tense
marker #2-present) itsira(noun-home) -tsah(preposition marker-to)

That's a little shorter, but still a little long. Can anyone suggest
another way to accomplish this, or should I post what I have now before
any of you can make any meaningful suggestions (something I was planning
on doing anyway, just to see what you all thought). Anyway, any comments
would be helpful I think... thanks...


                                                        Joe Schelin