Re: Heyas all!

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:54:32 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>
>Cool.  It could be the beginning of a conlang.  I assume you have a
>pronunciation for that?  If so, start with those sounds, and expand on
>it, to give you your phonology, and then break down the words in some
>way into morphemes, and assign meanings, so for
>
>Hah'Rooqh Tah'Khrine, Eayl Noh'Tahl
>May you go in peace, all your journey
>
>you could have:
>
>Hah'-Rooqh Tah'-Khri-ne, Eay-l Noh'-Tahl
>In-Peace May-go-you, you-possessive all-journey
>
>Thus, by this break-down, it appears that this language inflects verbs
>for person, and either has some sort of case system, or simply
>attaches
>prepositions to words (decide, for instance, how adjectives would be
>dealt with, in-red house or red in-house or in-red in-house, to figure
>if it's a case or a preposition).  It also has a prefix for blessings.
>Most likely, it would have prefixes for things like imperatives
>(perhaps
>VanKhrine = go!).  Is the apostrophe a sound, like glottal stop, or
>does
>it separate prefixes from their stem, as Steg Belsky has done with
>Rokbeigalki (sp?)?  Or perhaps h' is a single unit.
>
>AIM Screen-name: NikTailor
>
As a matter of fact, _ta'_ is a valid preposition in Rokbeigalmki....it
means "in" :) .  So "Tah'Khrine" could be the part that means "in peace",
too. :)

Since it's related, Rokbeigalmki uses double apostraphes (distinct from
quote marks) for abbreviations and to mark elisions of vowels.

_ta'esh_ = "in you"
_t''esh_ = "in you" with the /a/ elided.

The apostraphes are descended from what were originally short superscript
hyphens during the early years of the alphabet (conhistory, not RL), used
to just connect the preposition and the noun.  Abbreviations use doubles
to show that the parts of the words are connecting *to eachother* and not
simply the preposition tacking itself on to the noun.


-Stephen (Steg)
 what is fear?
 ----- "anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"
 so what is freedom?
 ----- "ein lekha ben hhorin ela' mi she`oseiq batora"

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