Re: Tech _hay_

From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Tech _hay_


| Danny Wier wrote:
| >
| >And I overlooked another root that's very similar: *way "woe!".  Again, an
| >interjection, but what if I used it for a case ending?

[I should've said "case beginning"; it's all prepositional.]

| Before *way came along, I thought of "exclamatory"; but now, since there's a
| contrast, how about "appreciative" vs. "depreciative" ?  (These don't strike
| me as true "cases", but I don't know what they would be called.)

Yeah, I don't like the name "case"; it's no more a case than a comparative or
superlative.  What's a better grammatical term?

~DaW~


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