Re: palindrome to pluralize

(For an example of a different mechanism, consider that singular "tas"
might pluralize to "tat")



On 7/28/08, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Tas -> sat does not form a palindrome anywhere.  That's just reversal.
>  Tas -> tassat forms a palindrome.  Duplication is just the mechanism
> ised to get a palindrome result.  Other mechanisms are possible but
> less general.
>
>
>
> On 7/28/08, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
>>> 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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