Tr:pang (was Re: Babel Text in Feringistani 1.2)

In a message dated 29.09.2001 11:06:34 PM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:

>It's the things which are horribly wrong which get the most comment.
>The Right Thing often draws no reply at all.
>
ahhh... okay... ::stops wringin' paws, crackin' knuckles::  ;)

    I am in-current-state think of use in Tr:pang the strangeness to follow :)

    Noun - demonstrative- Number-Adjective

    ... kaynin na'mee wan tan...
        <...dog near-1SG one brown...>
            ...this brown dog...

    Pan-pan!! Kaynin na'yu nas:tee tree!
        <Urgency!! Dog near-2SG nasty three>
            Warning!! There is three vicious dogs!

    Yes, I know that is oddly against all "those" implicational universals.
But hey Tr:pang is a creole that descends from polyglot pidgins. Syntax
(esp'ly in pidgins) is always mutant/mutating anyways. So... I can do
whatever I waaaaaannnnNNNTTT, nyah nyah :P~~~ ... within some kinda reason,
of course ;)

czHANg, beginnin' to really like bein' perversely
anti-universal-implicational ;)

"Tá mé i mo idirgalachtach bhithiúnach."
<<"I am an intergalactic space criminal.">>