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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