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.
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