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Re: help with starting out

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Thursday, June 29, 2000, 3:46
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Also, juts about any words can be jammed together to give a new meaning. >For example, from "serek", "to speak", you have "nanserek", lit. "no >speak", meaning "to confuse", and "danserek", lit. "yes speak", meaning >"to understand". Such things are fairly common, and can be done with any >words, but I don't have any other examples. Maybe "word-see", >"odesvisen", for "to read".
Not quite the same, but Saalangal allows compounding in order to make new words. For instance, the very word "saalangal" is a compound word, formed from saal - island + angal - people. Not a very unusual name for them ;). I should also have the pages uploaded to my ftp space before Saturday. _________________________________________________________ This ain't a yes, this ain't a no, just do your thang, we'll see how it goes