Re: Tu ta pasa Tiki, he mo vuhu so ka sina
From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 6:18 |
On 4/5/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> Names are
> placed after a descriptive noun which gives the general category of
> meaning: languages with "pasa", countries with "kuni", cities with
> "site", and so on.
Sounds like the Toki Pona approach. (Or like the practice I've seen in
a Chinese book of putting a mark next to characters used as a phonetic
transcription of a proper name, to show that they're not used for
their meaning.)
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>