Re: my conlang: anyone interested?
| From: | dansulani <dansulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:54 |
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On 10 Dec, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> That's a very interesting approach. A couple of days ago I got an opposite
idea:
> a conlang that would be result-oriented. Because of this the basic form
for a
> verb would be a kind of passive perfect participle:
> _wachi sipu_ 'water (is) drunk', _tapu chama_ 'bread (is) eaten'.
Interesting idea; but I'm having a bit of a problem
trying to wrap my mind around a verb with
obligitory perfect aspect.
How, for example, would this lang translate
the old soul-music classic: "Hold on! I'm coming!" ?
Something along the lines of "the coming is done"?
But it isn't done! The whole point of the expression
is that, at the time of speaking, there is "coming"
and "hold on" because the coming is not finished
and can be expected to continue on into an
unspecified future. IOW, an imperfect action!
Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
A word is an awesome thing.
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