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Re: allnoun revisted

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, April 23, 1999, 3:09
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:32:36 +0100, "Raymond A. Brown"
<raybrown@...> wrote:

>What it seems to me that Tom has done is to some extent do what I tried =
all
>those years ago: to produce a language with just two parts of speech. =
But
>Tom goes one step further in that his pleremes are all explicitly >interpreted by him as nouns.
I originally described Eklektu as having basically two parts of speech. = But it turns out that the "verb-like" or "noun-like" roots require a = definition of their "place structure" (for lack of a better term) to fully specify their usage, and the "particles" can be divided into a number of distinct categories related to their use in Eklektu syntax (verb markers, noun markers, case markers, etc.) -- languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin