Re: polysynthetic languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 19, 2003, 2:28 |
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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"
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you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." -
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