Re: Unilang: the Grammar

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
> SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...> writes:
> > If I may butt in, to the person writing on Tyl-Sjok,
> > why is it that you decided on making simple concepts
> > like "come/go" into long phrases as you said
> > ("move-use-foot").  Is it to resemble Mandarin or
> > something?  Just curious...
>
> For various reasons:
>   - the language should be isolating, and I thought
>     that a concept of `go' and `come' is merely the same
>     with some variation, so it should be composed.
>     The problem is, of course, to decide where to stop
>     decomposing concepts...
Hmm, in Hadwan I believe I planned a distinction between a word for
'come/go/move' meaning roughly 'to go from one place to another' and a word for
'move' meaning roughly 'to move something from one place to another'.

Only since this kind of construction would be exactly manageable by
transitively/intransitively conjugating the verb, having two different words
would be ... well, it'd be mildly evil.  They would be DEFECTIVE verbs, missing
parts of the conjugation for no good reason whatever!  >:)

Of course, the second 'move' would probably quickly denegerate to something
similar to 'push', and other whatnontsense.


     *Muke!
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