Re: Knowledge-related roots in sabyuk

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:41:20 +0200
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

> En réponse à julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>:
>
> > - Xayà ['Xayà] (the ``Beingty''
>
> "Beingness" would be more appropriate. the "suffix" -ty is not productive in
> English (pretty normal. It appears AFAIK only in borrowings from French, and
> looks productive in those cases only because -té is quite productive in
> French). -ness, which has the same meaning, is on the other hand quite
> productive for this kind of neologism.
Oops. Yes, beingness is much better. Thank you.


> Interesting lexicon. A semantic differentiation between knowledge-sharing
> actions and more ordinary ones... interesting... I suppose that the society is
> a meritocracy.
Absolutely. Everyone can become a sabyàjà if they are able to. Nevertheless, I should
not insist too much on that point, that could lead to a misunderstanding of my
original goal. This phenomenon must be thought of as a polite form, just like
french "vous", spanish "Usted/Ustedes", or maybe japaneese honorific forms,
except that they are used depending the process is knowledge-related on not
(roughly speaking). I should add that only sabyàjà can occupy political
functions : this is due to the fact that, according to xayijà, knowledge leads
to wisdom, so only wise people are allowed to take important decisions. The
underlying idea is to see the relations that could appear between the language
and a such organized society ;)


>Not sure I would like to live there though, knowledge to me is a
> means, not an end :)) .
Neither would I : I'd be too lazy to become a sabyàjà ;).

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