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Re: Terms of Endearment

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 30, 2003, 17:29
> Chris Bates wrote: > > > How many people have the [love/like] distinction in their > > conlang?
Well, Tairezazh has _tshei-_ "to love" and _neir-_ "to like". _Tshei-_ used to have similarly broad meaning as English "to love", but in the modern language it's largely restricted to romantic love. _Neir-_ is very broad in meaning.
> > And finally, adjectives used as nouns. Do many conlangs/natlangs > allow > > free use of adjectives as nouns? .....Of course, this question has > > no meaning if a language has stative verbs instead of adjectives.
Tairezazh adjectives can be used as nouns without change in basic form. They'll take nominal endings for case and number, however. Andreas