Re: CHAT: enterprise

        I tried to find this term on the web. I found it used in two
contexts.

1) Language learning: "two modes of learning", usually written and spoken.

2) Usually for math/logic language: This took a few reference to figure it
out. It was used to refer to linguistic operands for both space and time.
Also, it was used for referenced to descriptors being based on polar
opposites like in English "near-far", "here-there" (as opposed to Japanese
"koko", "soko", and "asoko"), "good-bad", "positive-negative".

        However, searching google, I couldn't find a good definition of the
term.


        In the first episode, when Capt Archer is trying to "seduce" her
with the tape of Klingon (I could hear him saying, "cool geeky stuff!"), he
describes it as an "adaptive syntax", which I thought was an odd term. The
KLI describes it as an "agglutinative syntax". I think they dropped a couple
syllables to make the word easier for him.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Mario Bonassin
| Subject: Re: OT: Enterprise
|
| In the second episode, the linguist says after hearing a
| language for about 5 seconds that the grammar sounds
| 'bi-modal'.  is this even an acutal term.
| Mario
|