Re: palindrome to pluralize

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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