Re: A question about connecting sentences

I would suggest, Larry, making your tense and adpositional particles
shorter, perhaps just a single phoneme.  It strikes me that a lot
of agglutinative languages work this way.  For example:

        Ju-m yia'di-v itsu ju-m baidi-v itsira-ts.

Sally.

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Larry Schelin wrote:
>
>             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
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