Re: Necessity of Conculture?

On 2 Jun 99, at 21:34, Dan Sulani wrote:

> Jim Henry wrote:
> > My current project {gzb} is a personal experiment; it is based
on a
> > small but real culture, namely me.  I intended it for keeping journals &
> > writing notes to myself, so I lexicalize things I talk or think about
> > frequently as root words, etc.  I want to observe how the process of
> > making and using it affects me, though, so I'm building other basic
> > distinctions into its root lexicon that I normally wouldn't make when
> > speaking my idiolect of English or Esperanto.
> >
>
>     Also, consider for encoding, grammatical distinctions you use most
>     often.
> Any distinctions you'd _want_ to use that English or Esperanto don't
> provide? Don't forget about _them_.
> Anyhow, good luck on your project.
Yes, thus the reflexive verb marker instead of using the active verb
marker + a transitive pronoun.

Also, I analyzed the Esperanto affix list and in most cases I have
two or three affixes or root words corresponding to one in
Esperanto (though the reverse in a few cases, e.g. anto/into/onto
are all {tu}, the agent, ditto ato/ito/oto --> {hxy}, the patient.


Jim Henry III
Jim.Henry@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm
*gjax zaxnq-box baxm-box goq.