Re: Weird language idea

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:15:44PM +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> 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
And thus you would end up with something not recognizably different
a posteriori.  I had a similar issue; one of my original "brilliant"
ideas for Dankaran (the family of my two active conlangs) was to have
adverbs instead of adjectives.  As in, "the sky is bluely"; meaning
"the sky goes about its business of existing in a distinctly blueish manner".
But even with clearly-defined grammatical markers it would just
appear that adverbs and predicate adjectives shared one; the intended
distinction idea didn't come across.

-Mark

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