Re: Verbs as Adjectives - Reply and Thanks. :)

Chris Bates wrote:
>
> Thanks to Everyone who replied before! I've been giving the matter a lot
> of thought anyway... still haven't decided exactly how I'm going to do
> it. Since a couple of people gave Japanese as an example I've been
> learning a little japanese from this book which teaches it in romanized
> form... just to find out the basics of Japanese grammar, since I don't
> really have time to learn it properly including Kanji, Hiragana etc.
> *sigh* I love the look of the Hiragana though... its a very nice
> syllablary (how do you spell that word!?!?!), but the Kanji in the
> middle spoil the look of written Japanese. They're much uglier than the
> Hiragana.
Hee hee.  Personally, I think kanji-less Japanese looks more boring than
Japanese with kanji.  :-)  I like kanji myself.

>  I've included an optional plural affix, but since Japanese gets by
> perfectly well without any plural affixes for most nouns (I think
> there's a plural form for the noun "person" isn't there? And a couple of
> other nouns... along with the pronouns)
Some nouns have fossilized reduplicative plurals (hito (person) ->
hitobito, shima (island) -> shimajima, kami (god) -> kamigami).  In
addition, there's a suffix -tachi, which actually means something like
"group associated with", but has some overlap with plural (and in
pronouns *is* a plural suffix)

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