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Re: [glosalist] Tense and number and other things
David Porter ("David Porter" <daveyporter@...>) on October 16, 2017
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Hi 3zja Just to acknowledge your email - I have an interest in Glosa but am= not knowledgeable when it comes to the grammatics so cannot answer your qu= ery - hopefully someone will. I think that the language is on the back bu= rner and has been since Ron Clark and then Wendy Ashby passed away. From = earlier Glosa material Ron and Wendy wrote that the context was similar to = Chinese, maybe therein is a clue. Regards Davidjp
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From: 3zja@… [glosalist] To: glosalist@yahoogroup= s.com Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 7:48 PM Subject: [glosalist] Tens= e and number and other things
Hi Glosalist!
Lately I’ve started= to read about Glosa, and I have some questions. I have an interest in lang= uages, especially auxlangs, on a hobby level. One feature (or rather lack o= f feature) that I’ve come to like in languages that I’ve come to like is no= t mandatory tense and number. European languages often (always?) mark tense= /time and number (singular or plural), “mandatore-ly”, but in some language= s that is only described if it is of interest, or is needed for clarity.
= This makes me wonder:
1) How mandatory is marking tense and number in G= losa? 2) Would Glosa work, in theory, without marking tense/number?
As= I’ve understood it, marking number is semi-mandatory: u/un/plu is not need= ed if the sentence is still clear without it. I suppose one catch is that..= u/un/plu is used to make the phrase clearer, to show what is a noun and wh= at is a verb.. am I right in presuming that it fills such a role?
Would = sentences like:
- mi pa lekto bibli, e logi [that]..
- pa-di, mi lekto = bibli, e logi [that]..
be normal Glosa?
In Pandunia, another simple = auxlang in development, the end of the subject/the beginning of the verb ph= rase is instead marked by a word (while the noun is marked instead in Glosa= ).. I suppose then that.. the phrase-start “mi grafo …” could already mea= n both “I write” and “my writing”, right? (Thinking about the limits in reg= ards to comprehensibility and how much difference the u/un/plu makes..).
= (Btw, how active is the Facebook group?)
Ami saluta, 3zja
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Hi Glosalis=
t!
Lately I've started to read about Glosa, and I have
some quest=
ions. I have an interest in languages, especially auxlangs, on a
hobby l=
evel. One feature (or rather lack of feature) that I've come to like in
=
languages that I've come to like is not mandatory tense and number. Europea=
n
languages often (always?) mark tense/time and number (singular or plur=
al),
"mandatore-ly", but in some languages that is only described if it =
is of
interest, or is needed for clarity.
This makes me wonder:<B=
R>
1) How
mandatory is marking tense and number in Glosa?
2) Would=
Glosa work, in
theory, without marking tense/number?
As I've und=
erstood it, marking
number is semi-mandatory: u/un/plu is not needed if =
the sentence is still
clear without it. I suppose one catch is that.. u/=
un/plu is used to make the
phrase clearer, to show what is a noun and wh=
at is a verb.. am I right in
presuming that it fills such a role?
<BR=
>Would sentences like:
* mi pa
lekto bibli, e logi [that]..
* pa-d=
i, mi lekto bibli, e logi
[that]..
be normal Glosa?
In Pa=
ndunia, another simple auxlang
in development, the end of the subject/th=
e beginning of the verb phrase is
instead marked by a word (while the no=
un is marked instead in Glosa).. I
suppose then that.. the phrase-start =
"mi grafo ..." could already mean both "I
write" and "my writing", right=
? (Thinking about the limits in regards to
comprehensibility and how muc=
h difference the u/un/plu makes..).
(Btw,
how active is the Faceb=
ook group?)
Ami saluta,
3zja
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