Re: Requesting some challenging sentences

On 10/25/05, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> Every time I try to go off in some peculiar direction
> and do something original it keeps circling around and
> turning into somthing quite ordinary from one natlang
> or another. Is there nothing new under the sun? ;-)
>
> --gary
>
It's because we (including you) keep urging you to demonstrate, in
your grammar, the ability to do something ordinary from one natlang or
another. A people that actually spoke a language with a grammar like
Soaloa's might never be bothered to convey some of these concepts, but
might find it easy to convey others that we're not even thinking of.

Still, I suspect that Soaloa truly is too rudimentary to do what you
want, which is why it's an interesting topic of discussion! Thanks!

--larry