Re: 'together vs. to gather'

--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
penned:

> If you had to draw a symbol for "to gather" or
> "to
> disperse" (both intransitive), how would you do
> ?
The Talarian glyphs for tâhanam (pay) and capanam
(receive) are at
<http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/temp/pay_receive.jpg>.
The doololly that looks like a P is the "object"
determiner.

> You
> would probably draw several arrows (at least
> three)
> into separate directions from a same point, or
> pointing to a single point from different
> directions
> (see PowerPoint symbols for ex). With other
> verbs of
> movement (to go, to go up / down, to go around,
> etc),
> you would draw a single arrow, oriented one or
> another
> way, straight or curve, etc. That's way I think
> that
> those verbs contain a seme of "plural".
?? I'm still not understanding how any sense of
number attaches to these actions. Is it because
you've got more than one arrow?

Padraic.



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