Re: Change and Sense Markers in rtemmu (was Re: Re: conlang greetings page)

On 5 Dec, J Y S Czhang asked:


>     In rtemmu, how would ya describe a synaethesiac mix up of audiory &
> visual stimuli?
>
By joining  -lor- and -yai-  with the appropriate conjunction.

    (Note: the following conjunctions can also join words and phrases
as well as infixes. In that event, they are written as separate
words.)

    I wouldn't use "o`g" (o`=[O]), because that's a compound-maker:
yyaio`glorgiha (y-yai-o`g-lor-giha) would be something like
"visual-auditory happiness" and yloro`gyaigiha  (y-lor-o`g-yai-giha)
would be "audio-visual happiness". No synaesthesia implied.

    I wouldn't use "ag" because that asks the listener to take the previous
process and add to it the following process, without taking into account any
development on the parts of the processes; sort of creating an overall
impression of the whole situation by panning from one detail to the next.
-yaiaglor- would be "visual with auditory added in";
-loragyai- would be "auditory with visual added in"
(Two words joined by "o`g" are more equal in [cognitive] weight than
two words joined by "ag".)

    I wouldn't use the conjunction "zhihl"  [ZIl]. Although this asks the
listener to take into account the development of the previous process
during the addition of the following process, I don't see this as indicating
synaesthesia.

    I think the best bet would be to use "sehmu",  which indicates that
the first process "develops into" the second process. Thus:

yyaisehmulorgiha   (y-yai-sehmu-lor-giha) would be happiness resulting
from visual input turning into auditory input.

ylorsehmuyaigiha   (y-lor-sehmu-yai-giha) would be happiness resulting
from auditory input turning into visual input.

    In rtemmu, one could even conceiveably have a word like:

pyyaisehmulorgihaai  = a happy visual-to-auditory synaesthetic
                                    hallucination!
            or
pylorsehmuyaigihaai = a happy auditory-to-visual synaesthetic hallucination!


Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.

A word is an awesome thing.

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