Re: Weird language idea

Staving Christian Thalmann:
>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@R...>
>
>wrote:
> > Staving Christian Thalman:
>
> > >- The dog was sleeping until the cat woke him up.
> >
> > being doglike sleeping before. being catlike cause being doglike
>
>awake.
> >
> > >- I haven't found my socks yet, but I will if I keep searching.
> >
> > being socklike located knowing now not. located knowing conditional
> > searching still.
> >
> > >- These chocolates are for the girl who helped me with math.
> >
> > being chocolate for being human young female helping being self
>
>counting
> > knowing.
>
>You know, I can't really see a fundamental difference to
>conventional grammars.  These sentences could well be described
>in terms of nouns, verbs and prepositions.  You simply don't
>inflect verbs, and mark all nouns with the article "being".  =P
I suppose that the difficulty with this sort of thing is that you
automatically find yourself reintroducing by the back door the very things
you've abolished to create the exotic atmosphere. However, with a bit of
work I reckon I could make the idea more rigourous. The key is to make the
states things that naturally shift between verbal, adjectival and nominal
meanings, and make everything as context dependant as possible. I can well
imagine that some words (particularly "being", "cause", "belonging") might
mutate into grammatical affixes fairly quickly.

Pete

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