your conlang
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 1, 1998, 22:11 |
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Pharamond Curtis wrote:
> Kovid vav karev det barakev?
> Eat you dog or cow?
> Did you eat the dog or the cow? (The speaker is expecting a yes-or-no
> answer.)
If you wanted it to be REALLY ambigous, you wouldn't even change
the syntax; you'd have only the intonation to indicate a question rather
than a statement. :)
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