Re: Danish: tonal suffices?

At 15:21 03/07/00 GMT, you wrote:
>
>Polysynthetic French? Well, the one I designed back then wasn't, probably
>because I wasn't well familiar with typolocical classes. However, I'd
>probably make it polysynthetic if I were to review it; a few days ago I was
>complaining to my friend (both of us have studied French for 5 years) about
>how difficult it could be to utter a French sentence word by word, as
>opposed to the Spanish or Italian sentence. French words merge so much
>together and associate in various ways, that you just can't say one word at
>a time. You have to think the whole package through and then pronounce it
>almost as one word. And that thought got me thinking in the back of my head:
>"Isn't that sort of like those polysynthetic languages?"
>
Very likely. To speak good French, you mustn't think in terms of words but
of phrases. Pretty much like a polysynthetic language IMHO.

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