Re: You have a word for it?

At 06:26 PM 1/25/02 -0800, Elliott Belser wrote:
>The reason I got into conlanging is because ENGLISH IS
>IN-FRIGGIN-ADEQUATE!  So I made up a lot of words for things that
>don't exist in english.
    The really weird words in Rav Zarruvo are the ones that I come upon by
accident.  Sometimes the word is just one to fit into a group; other times
it's a compound word I developed to translate something else, and that's
what came together.
    The weirdest word I can find is the pronoun dhya -- this is the first
and second person singular pronoun for an inanimate object.  It's almost
never used unagglutinated (though the adjectival prefix nna- and the
negating prefix nga- can make the reasonably common adjective nnangadhya,
which refers to an object or concept that is not familiar to either the
speaker or the addressee).
    A few other odd or unusual words:
    ju - to shout as if angry (though not necessarily with actual anger
present)
    bvol - love as between siblings or close friends
    'ull - to give attention to or concentrate on
    dhol - to be at the position next to or on the side area of something
    lan - risk of social embarrassment or being ostracized

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