Re: Unilang: the Grammar

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> SuomenkieliMaa scripsit:
>
> > Here, however, I may comment this.  If you intend
> of
> > having Tyl-Sjok act as the "mother" tongue from
> which
> > to base offspring languages, will it not be
> terribly
> > confusing/difficult to proceed if the mother
> tongue
> > already holds such hard-to-remember combinations
> as
> > "move-use-foot" to describe "come/go"?  The
> offspring
> > tongues' concept of these verbs must become
> > mind-boggling I guess.
>
> Not necessarily: it may just become totally
> obscured.  In Old
> English, compounds meaning "bread-guard" and
> "bread-kneader"
> gave rise to the apparently unanalyzable Modern
> English
> words "lord" and "lady" (note the "l" in both,
> coinciding
> with the "l" in "loaf").
>
> --
> John Cowan
> cowan@ccil.org
> One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to
> do/with sparks/galore
>         --Douglas Hofstadter
You learn something everyday!  Thanks John..


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