--- Josh Roth froge sionk:
> In a message dated 11/17/01 10:53:35 PM, fuzzybluemonkeys@YAHOO.COM
> writes:
> >ha yes... i'm actually prepared for this... in order to make a
> >verb into a noun that refers to a person who does the action in
> question you would first add an "a" (signifying plurality)and then
>>add an "n" after than to make it singular
> >tevil= to eat
> >tevila= eaters
> >tevilan= eater
> >or
> >thetre= to laugh
> >thetrea= laughers (people who are laughing... i don't know if this
> >is used in english)
> >thetrean= laugher (person who is laughing... same comment as
> >above)
>
> Interesting that to make the singular you have to add on the plural
> rather
> than the other way around.... Are other nouns in the language like
> this too?
just verbs being turned into nouns... for other nouns you would just
have to add an "a" to the end of the word to make it plural... pretty
much like the english "s"...
> >but in order to say food/"eats" (though not necessarily cheap) or
> >laughter it would follow the rule of reduplication of the first
> >consonant with a vowel following it prefixed to the
> >stem/root/whatchamacalit (this works for some verbs and all
> >adjectives at the moment)so:
> >
> >tetevil= food
> >hethetre= laughter
> >
> >i'm not sure if i explained that very well (it does all make sense
> >in my mind... well somewhere in there... you might need a
> >flashlight and some shovels...)
>
> Makes sense to me.
>
> Actually now that I think about it ... the relationship isn't
> totally clear. You eat food, but you laugh a laugh. I suppose you
> can also laugh laughter, but "laughter" can also
> mean "laughing" ... while "food" does not mean "eating." Hmmm...
hmmm... maybe it would make more sense to say hethetre=laugh...
because that would also correspond with dream, sleep, and drink
> verb - object - action
> eat - food - eating
> laugh - laugh/laughter - laughter/laughing
> Would these correspond to:
> tevil - tetevil - x
> thetre - hethetre - y
> where x and y are words I don't know in you language?
well nobody knows them because they don't exist... at the moment if
you wanted to say "i am eating" you would just use the regular verb
"to eat" and placing it after the verb for "to be" would make it into
an action that you are doing presently
myo (i) yest (to be) tevil (to eat)
> I think it's English that's the problem here. :-)
goofy monkey language :p
> (Ever notice how after you look at the same word too many times, it
> starts to
> look very odd? Laugh, laugh, laugh....)
i think it's just that the word laugh is spelled so funny... how does
"gh" end up being pronounced as an "f"?
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