Re: Weird language idea

--- 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

This is not unlike my very own Oro Mpaa, has a similar isolating
grammar which allows the stringing together of phrases, where
one phrase's object is passed on to the next phrase as the new
subject, e.g. "man kick dog run" or "man give bone go_to dog".
The chief difference is that Oro Mpaa can mark verbs as finite
or nonfinite, therefore distinguishing between "the man eats"
and "the man eating" = "the man who eats".


-- Christian Thalmann

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