Re: Alien conlang idea
From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 8:18 |
At 17:56 19/07/2004, you wrote:
>Peter Bleackley scripsit:
>
> > Suppose we then have the nouns slf (I), kns (dog), skl (bone), tld (child)
> > and the verbs e_a_ (have) _i__ (give) __uo (undergo) oa_e (receive), then
> >
> > eslaf otalde silf knuso tild skulo okanse
> >
> > I-have child-receive I-give dog-undergo child-give bone-undergo dog-receive
>
>Sounds syntactically like an only somewhat exaggerated version of Chinese,
>which likes noun-verb-noun-verb-noun-verb sequences like this.
With the difference, of course that the noun and the verb are effectively
the same word.
Pete