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Re: Looking for a case: counting

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Friday, February 20, 2004, 8:38
Your remark is perfectly relevant. But would Koko be
able to express such a complex idea ? I doubt it.
Maybe some Super-Koko could do it:
- You listen Koko say.
- Koko has car.
- Koko sit inside car.
- Ms-X sit inside car.
- Koko drive car.
- Ms-X no drive car.
- Car move city.
- Koko move city inside car.
- Ms-X move city inside car.
- Car come city.
- Koko come city inside car.
- Ms-X come city inside car.
- That Koko-say.
- Koko-say happen sun-up.
- Koko-say happen sun-down sun-up.
- Koko-say happen sun-up sun-down sun-up.
- That Koko-say.
- Ugh !

(I'm not quite satisfied about the translation of
'every day' into 'sun-up / sun-down sun-up / sun-up
sun-down sun-up', perhaps there could be some other
possibility).

--- takatunu <takatunu@...> wrote:
> Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrote: > <<<< > Sure. I would propose do to it even easier: > - Hello John. > - Hello Koko. > - Koko want banana. > - Koko not glad. > - Here banana. > - Banana good. > - John good. > - Koko want sleep. > - Koko good. > >>>> > > My conlang has a grammar like that. As well as my > Khmer relatives-in-law. > However, your lines above still do not translate the > sample sentence: > "I drive Ms X to the city in my car every day." > > µ.
===== Philippe Caquant "Le langage est source de malentendus." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools