Re: GROUPLANG: cases (was: noun and verb roots)

At 15:54 16/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Pablo Flores wrote:
>> If you remember well, we don't distinguish verbs from nouns.
>> By predicate-case-marking a root, you transform it into a "verb".
>> The possible confusions here are avoided if you gloss a word
>> with all of its possible meanings according the case.
>
>This whole thing is becoming too logical for me, too much like NGL or
>loglan.  I thought that we were aiming for a naturalistic lang?
>
        Here I agree with you. Let's add a bit of possible confusion, I
don't like unambiguous languages. We're not computers!

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