Re: Tu ta pasa Tiki, he mo vuhu so ka sina

On 4/4/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> Larry Sulky wrote:
---SNIP---
> But I'm thinking that the Hawaiian pattern with
> the head first may be a better fit for the general pattern of the
> language; the ambiguity could be resolved by contrasting "ave vata"
> (blackbird) with "ave di vata" (bird which [is] black).
I've also found head-first to work a bit better, though arguments can
be made the other way. Also, Dari (=Persian?) and a good many other
natlangs use a particle like your "di" to mark a modified-modifier
relationship.

> So I need to do
> a little more playing around with the grammar (and possibly borrow some
> more ideas from Hawaiian) before I'm ready to put it up on a web page.
Okay. Feel free to look at ilomi
(http://ca.geocities.com/handydad/elomi/elomi-main.html), an auxlang
that thinks it's a conlang, for any ideas you'd like to use, or to
avoid.

---larry