Re: Missing Words

>From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Missing Words
>Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:31:18 +0100
>
>En réponse à "M. Å." <moriquende@...>:
>Your naitve language doesn't have this verb?! What is it then?!!! <hungry
>look> :))
>
Finnish. Well, if you are interested, then I'll have to be particular: it
_does_ have verb similar to "have" ("having something" as synonyme to
"owning something"). That's just used only rarely, and I guess this is why
it sounds clumsy - which, in turn, was why I didn't want it in my Mamqosian.
:)

>I would have thought so, but my little booklet about the structure of
>languages
>says that languages like Quechua and Aymara use a similar construction :))
>.
>
It doesn't matter me anymore - not since I started reading books on
linguistics... but I still sometimes try to do things *I* haven't *yet* seen
in use, if I'm not too busy stealing nice ideas.

>Still, I find it an interesting idea. I'll have to try that once :)) .
Good luck with it. :)

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Also, I forgot rest of my message yesterday... another word which I try to
get along without is "forever" - likely for some obscure ideological
reasons... Not having "forever" means not thinking as forever, but instead
as "very long time" or "rest of my life".
Maybe one shouldn't make languages to match philosophy, but I'll just let
the Mamqosians decide whether they want a "forever" or not.


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// -M. Å.

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