Re: noun forms of verbs

Hi!

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> writes:
> > would still be `I ingest food'.  Because `ingest' is the default
> > action for `food', you can say `I food', too.
>
> Cool, this is a neat concept. I think I'll borrow this idea in my conlang
> :-)
Hey, didn't I borrow the concept from your conlang a while ago?? :-))
I definitely stole the idea, too. :-)

> [snip]
> > Other default nouns with default actions:
> >     car     to drive
>
> Interesting, reminds me of Mandarin's "che1" (car, or cart, or to drive a
> cart).
Quite some concepts in Tyl-Sjok come from Mandarin.  Leaving out
constituents (especially pronouns) that are clear from context is one
of them.  Isolating nature is another.  I left out things like
composites that make Mandarin non-isolating, however (like
`xiong1-di4-jie3-mei4' or `fu4-mu3' or `fang2-jian1').

> Cool! My conlang has a lot of context dependency too. You can basically
> leave out any words that are understood by context, including verbs :-)
Ditto. :-)  Except that in Tyl-Sjok, there are no verbs, really.  Often
it is most easy to think of words as verbs, though.

**Henrik