> > "the guy who i usedta date his sister comma is angry now"
> > ^^^ ............. ^^^ ...... ^^^^^
> >
> one natlang does so : indonesian :
>=20
> "orang YANG saya biasa meminang kakak perempuan-NYA ITU
> man WHO i use_to date younger_brethren female-HIS END
>=20
> dia marah semarang."
> he angry now.
You've been there and done that too.
> use of juxtaposition to express general genitive ? and the
> absence of tense ? and of article ? and they don't even have
> a word for "sister" !
Yes, I stole all those ideas already. Any more?
> chinese do sort of, but at least they've got tones and ideograms
> to make it look scientific.
Their books are tremendously compact, too.
But ideograms are difficult in email.
> > I think the comma is the coolest device of all, but it is neglected.
> > I can almost-just feel a tone-lang coming.
> any (stress) natlang is a tone lang (tone) in that regard.
OK, but people have to sing. So how about 5 tones?
Like, a =E1 =E0 =E3 =E2 or such.