Re: Let the listener guess what happened

Gary Shannon scripsit:
> I ran across some notes from several years ago about
> an idea for a language where the participants in the
> drama are enumerated, but the actual action is left
> for the reader/listener to infer.  For example:
>
> John the thrower; Fred the catcher; and the ball.
>
> "John threw the ball to Fred" does not specify whether
> Fred succeeded in catching the ball or not. However
> the construction "John the thrower; Fred the catcher;
> and the ball." sort of implies that Fred actually
> caught the ball.
Tom O'Breton's AllNoun works like this.  There are a lot of broken
links to it, but http://www.panix.com/~tehom/allnoun/allnoun.htm
seems to be current.

I had planned to use AllNoun's grammar for my abortive megalang xuxuxi, along
with my "anti-harmonic" morphology and WordNet/Classical Yiklamu lexicon.

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