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

On 3 Dec, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

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>  :-)  I've always liked your "rate of change" markers
    Thanks! I do too. They are responsible for a lot of the subtleties
of the lang. For example, in my previous post,  I decided to use
the subjective-fast change for "suprise".
Using "ni", the subjective too-fast-to-follow marker,
could also indicate suprise, but of a more explosive, shocking kind.
There is no suprise in "nu", the subjective too-slow-to-notice marker,
which might have overtones of being bored to tears, but happily so.
Or maybe a happy stupor.
    One could also go objective: "fis" instead of "ne", this would indicate
the  observable "lighting-up" of a person such as an excitable little kid
who has suddenly realized that the present he/she has received is exactly
what they have been dreaming of for a long time. (happens to adults too,
sometimes!  ;-)    )
    Going with objective "sif" instead of subjective "ni", might refer to
the super-quick "play of emotions" across a person's face that,
if you are not trained to observe them and not expecting them,
you'd probably miss.
    And so on. Adding in acceleration and deceleration markers,
differential change markers, not to mention the possibility of  _combining_
rate-of-change markers, can make for some interesting possibilities.
Some day when I find the time, I'd like to pick a process-word or two and
systematically go through all the permutations to see what I can come
up with.  Should be fun! :-)

    A note about the directional marker "fo": It doesn't have to go before
the rate-of-change marker; it can also go before the process-word. The
decision is one of emphsis: fone yyaigiha = "ne-type" change is coming
at the speaker and it is visual and happy;  ne foyyaigiha =  visual
happiness is coming at the speaker, warp-factor  "ne"!   ;-)

> >    BTW, re: "va'i fone yyaigiha!"
> >
> >     va'i = emotion marker
> >     fo = towards (in this case, the speaker)
> >     ne = "yyaigiha" is subjectively changing rapidly
> >             (as in "suprise"   :-)  )
> >     ygiha = the process of happiness
> >     -yai- = infix indicating relation to vision;
> >                 thus "yyaigiha" = visually induced happiness
>
> Neat!  "yyaigiha" is an especially great construction.  <admiration>
    Thanks.
    rtemmu has infixes for each of the senses:

                -yai-        sight
                -lor-         hearing
                -fuf-          smell
                -go`g~-     taste  ( o` = [O];  g~ = [N] )
                -tuhn-       touch

not to mention the general multi-sensory:  -klif-.

    There is also an indicator for internal sensation (that arising
from within the body). And of course, since I use _in_fixes to
represent _external_ senses, being my perverse self,  I use a
_circum_fix to represent _internal_  senses! :-P
Seriously! It is :  p-...-ai.  For example:
pygihaai (p-ygiha-ai)   might refer to the happy feelings coming
from digesting a very nice meal.
    Of course, the sensory affixes can be combined:
"pyyaigihaai"  might refer to happy visual halucinations
while "pylorgihaai" might refer to happy auditory halucinations, etc.
(We won't go into adding the rate-of-change markers ---
let's keep this circus to one ring, please!  ;-)   )


Dan Sulani
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