=46e ysgrifennodd Mathias am 2:18 am -0400 16/4/99:
>Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/04/99 19:55:16 , Ray a =E9crit :
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> Somewhen I must really try 'AllVerb' :-) >>
>
>I read it's been done already by a female conlanger I can't remember her
>name.
Aw, ain't there anything original a poor conlanger can do? ;)
>And I think Nova is not so far from that ;-) given it describes items
>as pertaining to broad categories which I feel as 'transitional or permanen=
t
>states' (it's a personal, 'psychological' viewpoint, not a grammatical one)=
=2E
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A fe ysgrifennodd Denis Moskowitz am 10:33 am -0400 16/4/99:
>[Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@...>]
=2E.....
>> Somewhen I must really try 'AllVerb' :-)
>>
>An all-verb (or atleast no-noun) language was mentioned in Jorge Luis
>Borges's "Tlon Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (sp?) though not much developed
>beyond a sample back-translation along the lines of "Above the
>on-streaming it moons." (The moon is above the river.)
I'm reminded of 'flower' which crossword adicts will be know should more
often than not be read as /flou@(r)/ =3D 'that ehich flows, a river' rather
than the common or garden /flau@(r)/ ;)
I like 'it moons'. Of course the initial 'it' is quite meaningless and
languages which do not insist on a subject when there isn't one do this
rather better, cf. for 'it is raining':
Latin: pluit
Italian: piove
Spanish: llueve
Romanian: plou@ [@ =3D a-breve]
Novial: pluva
In none of the above can the verb have a pronoun subject.
Novial even has:
nokta =3D it is night
nokteska =3D night is coming on
jorneska =3D day is coming
(presumably one can also have 'jorna' =3D it is day, though Jespersen's
Novial Lexike doesn't include it).
So why not -
*luna =3D "it moons"
*luneska =3D the moon is beginning to shine?
I've used Novial as examples not to imply support or otherwise for it nor
to imply that I would use it as a base for 'All-verb' - I wouldn't - but
merely for the sake of readily giving simple examples (and because I'm
familiar with it).
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You guys have got me interested. Maybe there is something here ;)
Ray.