CHAT hundi (was: Some more Madzhi grammar)

At 5:47 pm -0500 18/3/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
>
>> Presumably, in fact, just like the Esperanto 'hundi'.
>
>I am no Esperantist, but I seem to remember that "hundi" means to
>merely behave like a dog, rather than to be a dog.
Oh - you may be right.  I'm sort of remembering from my Auxlang days.  I
know the Esperants vehemently (How else?) maintained that all the
'grammatical affixes' can be affixed to all stems.  There was discussion
about 'hundi' with, of course, anti-Esperantists maintaining (with equal
vehemence) that such a form was nonsense & showed how 'flawed' E-o was.

I'm not sure all the Esperantists did agree exactly what 'hundi' meant; but
certainly they weren't going elaborate on any disagreement in that forum.
I thought the consensus among the Esperantists was "to be a dog", but I
might well have been mistaken.

Ray.



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