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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Friday, September 19, 2003, 5:31
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Eddy Ohlms wrote: > >>Polylangs are cool. You can say "I like big butts" in one word in my conlang: >>T/omum@âûlkamuma. > > > Uatakassi can't do that, because only unmodified words may be > incorporated. Plus, there's no one word for "like", there's only an > auxilary, and a verb that can take personal objects. So, "I like pie" > would be literally "I like to eat pie". "I like big butts" would > probably be "I like to see big butts" or perhaps "I like people with big > butts"
This begs the question: in whose conlang does "Baby Got Back" require the fewest words? ;)

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