Re: Languages without adjectives

Roger Mills wrote:

> "[H]e had two knives, and gave me the dull one"  would be:
> ine ro tica, me yawelesa yu popor
> [3s-DAT two knife, 1s-DAT 3s-give-PAST that dull].
And here I read this as, "Unsexily, I gave you poppers and yaws."
("Yaws" is a minor venereal disease, caused by an organism related to the
syphilis spirochete but not so nasty.)

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