Re: A Self-segregating morphology (was: Guinea pigs invited)

--- Patrick Littell <puchitao@...> wrote:

> On 12/18/05, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> > --- Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Y'all are inventing Arabic, right?  :-)
> > >
> >
> > hehe. I guess so , if you say so. But I really
> don't
> > know anything about Arabic. :-) Nothing new under
> the
> > sun, I guess.
> >
> > --gary
> >
>
> Haha; how'd you look up binyamin and not run across
> Arabic?  Anyway,
> you were nearly there; I wish I hadn't used that
> word, and then you
> could have invented Arabic ex nihilo.
I did run across mention of Arabic, but knowing of the
exitence of Arabic is a far cry from knowing anything
ABOUT Arabic. :-) Mostly I just found people named
"Binyamin", and only one short, and rather vague PDF
article on "binyamin", so I didn't have much to go on.
But the concept is an interesting one for sure.

But it was my understanding that the Arabic alphabet
didn't include vowels. Ot maybe it was that Arabic
words were spelled without vowels. Anyway, I didn't
think Arabic used vowels to alter the meaning of
roots. I'm probably wrong on all three of those
counts.

--gary

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