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Re: Expressing "that's how"

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 21:32
* B. Garcia said on 2005-03-23 22:04:02 +0100
> As I was sitting around doing nothing, i began to think of various > sentence patterns and how would I write them in Ayhan. I came across > on that's an issue -- how to express "that is how" in Ayhan, when > Ayhan lacks "to be". I just can't get my mind around how to do it. I > can't even think of a messy solution.
"that is how" in "this is how you bake a cake" for instance? In Norwegian you use the pronouns "slik" or "sånn": this is how you bake a cake -> slik baker du en kake Where "this is how" is replaced by "slik" t.

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Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>