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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, October 19, 1998, 8:59
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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