Re: Noli-me-tangere
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 30, 1999, 19:48 |
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:50:28 +0100 "Raymond A. Brown"
<raybrown@...> writes:
>
>How do other conlangers deal with this. Is it just the word for "not"
>+
>the imperative, or are there some more interesting constructions among
>our
>conlangs?
>
>Ray.
>
My conlangs are just simply using "no(t)" with the imperative, nothing
different.
Rokbeigalmki:
_eze-mwe_ = you(singular)|imperative-go = go!
/EzE mwE/
_eze'nyih-mwe_ = you(singular)|imperative'not-go = don't go!
/EzE njI mwe/
The infixed _'nyih-_ form is the common, basic form. There are also two
other forms, one which uses the full word _nyeng_ /njEn"/ (n" = uvular
nasal), and one which uses both.
_nyeng eze-mwe_ is slightly stronger than the simple form.
_nyeng eze'nyih-mwe_ is a very strong form.
For "positive" double negation (no + no = yes), _nyeng_ is used and
doubled:
_nyeng nyeng eze-mwe_ = no no you(singular)|imperative-go = don't not go!
This is the same way that non-imperative verbs are negated.
ool-Nuziiferoi:
One of the few things that were made for this first aborted conlang was
the word "no", _nyet_ /njEt/ (and yes, it was taken from Russian).
Rokbeigalmki's _nyeng_ is based on ool-Nuziiferoi's _nyet_.
I looked in the old notes on it, and it didn't look like we ever made an
imperative form...but i seem to remember having some kind of command form
where the verb-root was left alone, with just a subject vowel attached to
the front without a tense at the end.
_eziifer_ = you(singular)|speak = speak!
_eziifer-nyet_ = you(singular)|speak-no = don't speak!
_nyet_ was tacked on to the end of the verbs, as in one of the few
existing sentences _tezar, uh tezar-nyet?_ = "to be, or not to be?".
-Stephen (Steg)
_uroohhoorum au galahhalagm - dhawa sidgek?
yeli, damet ya'zek au damet ya'dwi -
sha'dhawa eziizii-mer?_
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