Re: THEORY: 'true' nature of nouns vs. 'illusionary' nature

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>

> Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> writes:
> > Not much online,
> > but I did find some RealPlayer-format news from CBC in Inuktitut (the
kind
> > they speak in Nunavut).
>
> Do you have a link?  I'm very interested in it.
http://www.cbc.ca/nunavutvotes2004/features/index.html

> I have a short piece of .wav from a Greenlandic film.  You can hear a
phone
> call in it.  I put it on my homepage:
>
>     http://www.theiling.de/sprache02.mp3
Listening to it now. Is Greenlandic influenced by Danish/Norse in its
intonation accents?

I saw something once about an Inuktitut-language program on a television
station in Iqaluit, which might be the northernmost such station in the
world, about an Inuit superhero named Super Shamou who teaches safety and
moral lessons to children. It's adapted from a comic book.

> > Since I want Tech to be highly inflected and polysynthetic,
>
> The above book claims that Kalaallisut has the longest morpheme chains
> of the Inuit-Aleut family. :-)
Looking at the first Google match after entering "kalaallisut",
http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/, I see words like
_atortussanngortinneqartassapput_, _titartarneqarsinnaanngimmata_, _
kusanarsaagaasanngillat_ and _nalunaarusiortussaatitaapput_. So I would
imagine so. I wonder what they might've named that town in Wales called
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll....

> I'm very interested in Tech! I'd like to compare it with S7 (which is
> still heavily work in progress).
I need to put something up on my homepage, but I've been SO lazy lately. I
hate it when I put something up, then change it, then change it again, so as
only to confuse the reader. So it might be a while before anybody sees
anything, including myself.

I'm visualizing what a complicated and precisely-marked verb might look
like. A hypothetical example might be _mstkjefftl'ihac'xwong_ and it might
mean "I hope I never say that he should get into the habit of giving
anything to them ever again". A noun (again factitious) like
_shqittghlormta'ilh_ might mean "belonging to that so-called father of
theirs who thinks he's so great". Of course it won't always be that extreme
in practice. Words won't be quite so long because many consonant clusters
can legally exist.

Another issue might arise in how to break down word phrases: I'm thinking of
having two different types of word space. Closely-bound morphemes within a
group might be offset by a small hyphen or dot while groups (phrases and
clauses) use a space, i.e. ASCII character 32/20 hex.

[Way OT: I also discovered that the Techian musical scale is not 72 equal
divisions of an octave like I said before, but 104 equal divisions of the
interval e:1 (e = Euler's constant ~ 2.718), which is almost the same thing.
Each step is 16.646 cents or 9.615 milliwiers.]

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