Arthaey: Laadan (was Survey)

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:23:20PM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:

> OT: A while back there was a discussion on whether Laadan's emotion-words
> covered concepts that English didn't.  Where is this original list of
> words?  The Cresaeans are telepathic, so I need a list of emotion-words.
You can find it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/message/82326 or
http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/nativetongue/laadansampler.html, but
keep in mind that this list is at least in part generated by taking a
concept and modifying it with affixes for things like "by birth/by heart",
"well/badly/uneventfully", "with evil intent/with good intent", "for good
reasons/for bad reasons/for foolish reasons/despite negative circumstances",
"finally, coming as a relief" etc (those may not be entirely accurate;
that's just my inference on looking at the list).  Basically, it's a system
of productive derivation of words, which in the end may be more helpful
than any bare list of words could be.

Amanda

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