Re: palindrome to pluralize

> Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Vincent Pistelli <pva003@...
> > wrote:
> > I just came up with an idea for a language I have been working on
> > that I thought everyone would like. The idea is that if the nouns
> > in your language are single syllables you can just turn the word
> > into a palindrme to make it plural.
>
> I don't see why it wouldn't work with words longer than one
> syllable; though the longer the root words are, the longer the
> pluralized forms will be, assuming I am reading you correctly (do
> an inverse reduplication of all or part of the root to pluralize).
>
> E.g., with monosyllables you might do,
>
> tas > tasat / tassat
> kin > kinik / kinnik
I understoodd the original idea not to include reduplication, simply
palindrome.  Thus:

tas > sat
kin > nik

I guess it would work as long as there was no homophone sat > tas.
But then there's always context.

Charlie

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