Re: [glosalist] Elision and left shift

In a message dated 27/08/2003 03:20:05 GMT Daylight Time, justi.miller@… writes:

Pre es internatio/inter-kultura lega de apo-verba: Id gene nomina “a laevo” ex lingua-skience-pe, plus-co, anti es exklude-ra in plu natura lingua, id feno es mo ex plu maxi universa lega de panto lingua.

Gary wrote/pa grafo:-

Pre es internatio/inter-kultura lega de apo-verba: Id gene

nomina “a laevo” ex lingua-skience-pe, plus-co, anti es exklude-ra in

plu natura lingua, id feno es mo ex plu maxi universa lega de panto

lingua. “laevo” ka il es ge-grafo proto e a laevo per na, plu arabik

grafo-pe puta qo de verba? mi du mira. posi “pre-kron moti”

alo “po-kron moti” sed id feno ne logika te itera uno-ra ke tu

fu dice ma po-kron! ka pre-kron moti du habe logika, id feno

gru de Glosa uti.

<There already is an international/intercultural rule for

elision: It is called “left shift” by linguists, and,

although there are always exceptions in natural languages, it appears to be one the most

universal laws of language.> “left” because it’s written first and to the left by us, what

do the arabic writers think of the term? I wonder. Perhaps

“early shift” or “late shift” might work. Although it seems

not very logical to repeat something you are going to say

later! As “early shift” is logical it seems appropriate for

Glosa use.

” He is a tall and strong man” - In the English, we know that

“man” is a noun but “tall” and “strong” are adjectives. In

Glosa we have “alti”= both “tall and “tallness”

(strong/strength). In some constructions this could cause

confusion.

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