Re: Unilang: the Grammar

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").

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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