narethanaal (or 'the ramblings of a deranged linguistics

From:    Roger Mills <romilly@...>

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>I had this problem in Tyl-Sjok, too.  It now has to
negative markers.
>One for the negative, one for the opposite.  The negative
is used by
>default, the opposite only when the situation allows it, or
to make
>jokes.
Similar to Kash:  ta ~ tak 'not',  tar- ~tra- 'un-'
etitring yu ta powumit 'that little hammer is not useful
(for a given task)'
........trapowumit 'useless' (perhaps the handle is broken)
muko 'bad', tramuko 'not bad, sort of acceptable, so-so'
kalar 'pregnant (of hum.)', trakalat 'to abort' (to
"un-pregnant"?)
>You can play with this, e.g. `John is not eating.' with the
opposite
>marker. :-) (Maybe I'll put a new idiom into the
lexicon...)
Indeed.  Though tra/nahan would probably mean 'to fast'.
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same in Tunu:

kela = no, not
duplication of the first syllable = opposite or reverse

tiki = high
kela tiki = not high
titiki = low

culo = open
kela culo = not open
cuculo = closed
(baicuculo = to close oneself--to be closed ; taicuculo = to
close something up)

tumu = eat
kela tumu = not eat
tutumu = throw up
bano kela tumu = fast ("keep not eat")

but this looks very standard to many conlangs.
even Esperanto has that.

Mathias
www.geocities.com/kalatunu/index.htm

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