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From: "daniel andreasson" <danielandreasson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: Varon
> Martin Fröjdh skrev:
>
> > Adjectives and adverbs are made by verbs, with no special
> > modifications. Colours are in fact nouns ("It was black"
> > is "It had black").
>
> Why? Couldn't you just have "It is (a) black" the same way you
> have "He is a doctor." Although, "it had black" is a neat
> way to do it. I haven't seen that before.
It's just a sort of "irregularity". And I think it looks better, and, I
didn't know any language that did have colors as nouns.
>
> > -----------
> > Marlo spoke with a beatiful woman.
> > Marlo woman-beautiful*.(PAST TENSE).(COMPLETED ACTION)
> > tala.(PAST TENSE).(INSTRUMENTAL).
> ^^^^
>
> hihi. :)
Sorry. Translation error :-)
>
> > Marlo lês-osae.(e)l.or vari.el.abi.
> > Marlo lês-osaelor varielabi.
>
> How do you pronounce {ae}? Is that a diphthong? Are there
> other diphthongs? Is it like /aj/? And where is the stress?
There are actually no diphtongs in Varon. The double vowels separate the
syllables, so it's o-sa-e. The stress is always on the paenúltima, the last
but one syllable.
Thanx for the comments ;-)
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