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

    I just noticed that a while ago I wrote the following:

>     (Note: the following conjunctions can also join words and phrases
> as well as infixes. In that event, they are written as separate
> words.)
    This is slightly misleading. Actually,  the situation is more like:
    The compounding  conjunction "o`g" is usually written between the
words it joins, without spaces between them. In this case,
the second process-word is expected to share
the exact rate-of-change as the preceding word (and thus the marker
can be dropped).
    The other conjunctions are usually prefixed with
an Imperative prefix, such as "au-" and written as separate words.
In this usage, rather than simply being stated, the connection
between the preceding word and the following word is
more forcefully asserted. For example:

shikalo`g kayaigu  =  river-beauty

(shikalo = river process
 kagu =  process of being good
 -yai- =  visual infix)

but

 kehs shikalo auag kayaigu =  (objective) river _is_  (objectively)
                                                beautiful!

(kehs = objectively changing at a normal rate;
the "kehs" of kayaigu can be dropped, since it is the same
as the "kehs" of shikalo.)

But one could also say something like:

kehs shikalo auag no kayaigu

(no = subjective slow change)

Also "river _is_ beautiful", but more exactly:
observe the (objective) river and add to that observation
a slowly forming (subjective) appreciation of its beauty.
Since the rate markers differ in speed (and in objectivity/subjectivity),
the conjunction has to be preceded by an Imperative prefix
and written separately.
     To summarize: if the rate-of-change/ob-sub-jectivity of both
process-words are the same,
the conjunction may be asserted or simply stated.
In the event that there is a difference, the conjunction must be asserted.

    (But, conjunctions can be dropped altogether, even if there are
differences between the process-words; and then, the second word simply
modifies the first word:

       kehs shikal no kayaigu = (slowly appreciated) beautiful (objective)
                                               river
                or
        no kayaigu kehs shikal = (objective) riverly (slow appriciation of)
                                                beauty.)



I'd better stop before I try to go chasing rtemmu grammar all the way down
the old rabbit hole into Wonderland!
My brain's all burned out as it is!
(rtemmu will do that to you! ;-)   )


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

A word is an awesome thing.