Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

Thee joy of English.

SVO or SOV or VOS or what? Some languages you have to do it one
way or else you can not understand the sentence.

English is this one of the aspects that makes English the
language of the planet for now, or just politics.

Anyone seen the example of how things are read, the one where as
long as the first and last letter are correct, you can read the
sentence, even if it is not what is supposed to be there..

Got to find it some place and share with my humor list. Or see
how anal retentive some people can be..

Word usage and what is profanity, cursing and swearing.

Shit is not accepted in most conversations, neither is crap for
some, but there is other words that mean the same things, but
are acceptible, or in some cases substituted.

"Oh Shit" becomes "Oh Darn", the same emotion or like is
expressed but the words are changed, to be more socially
acceptible or .. The effect is not as strong, cause some do love
to use "bad" words and get more pleasure out of it, but the end
effect is the same.

How does Conlangs handle this and like situations?

Like in Arabic, you do not often need to know the vowels, only
need to know the root consonants.

slm = add an M MSLM and you have Muslim. Leave it alone and it
is ISLAM.

Any like conlangs?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"


> Sai> Subject: USAGE: "I went crazy two years ago"
>
> I'm confused.  With the "want" corrected to "went", that
statement
> strikes me as completely unremarkable.  "I"m crazy."  "How
long have
> you been crazy?"  "I went crazy two years ago."  Is the
problem that
> you assume a crazy person is no longer capable of rational
speech?
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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