I've been slowly adding new words to the lexicon and changing some of the old ones as I find a need for them. I should probably publish a list here of the ...
Saweli has no prefixes. A word starts with its classifier, and nothing can precede the classifier. Thus all the morphology involves suffixes and endings. ...
I recently changed from MicroSoft Office (Word and Excel) to OpenOffice (Writer and Calc). In Excel I was able to replace a formula with its value. Does...
Here is the beginning of the changes to the lexicon since May 30, 2008, when I posted the whole lexicon on this list, beginning with message number 232. Words...
Here is the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) primitives and their equivalents in Saweli. I = yaras. you = yasas (singular). people = resu. someone/person =...
... Why don't you use "x" when the dynamics is unchanged static and "z" when it's unchanged dynamic? Using "v" seems a bit like you are refusing redundancy...
Veoler
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Apr 10, 2009 12:54 am
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In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, veoler@... ... "Bavasu" refers explicitly to people as human animals and means 'humanity', ...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... The main reason I did it this way is to make the changes explicit. If I did it as you suggest,...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... The "y" comes first, then the vowel: yi. I dislike "yi", as well as "wo" and "wu", so if I...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Here are all the classifiers and their meanings and how they're classified: M&E natural living...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Both are 'reptile', with "ces" being specifically 'snake', and "ce'us" being '(any non-snake)...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... "Base 4 number system" would be "sacaburs" and "base 6 number system" would be "sacacers". Here...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... No, it's just a pack of animals, all of the same kind, that would be named with this...
... Well, on page 40 in 'Semantics Primes and Universals' it says "all languages appear to distinguish, in one way or another, between a more general notion of...
Veoler
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Apr 10, 2009 2:14 am
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... I meant, could it refer to a group of sharks or another "pack" where the individuals were not members of Carnivora, or just for packs of members of...
Veoler
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Apr 10, 2009 2:18 am
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In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Yes. NSM seems to conflate the two. stevo...
... But that you already answered, since the word uses the classifier "be", I guess....
Veoler
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Apr 10, 2009 2:21 am
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In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... "Tanlom" is the anti-passive (allowing oblique patient) of "tam", "tanmom" is the anti-middle...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... Perhaps not. "True" is a gloss of "xufak", in the sense of "real, actual, true, existent". In...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... "Xufap" can also mean 'happen', in the sense of "be real", and may be a better choice here, or...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I wasn't sure what the NSM term meant, so I included both the transitive and intransitive. In...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... 'Walk' is "timep". Neither "tisep" nor "timep" could normally be used in "it goes on and on",...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... "Above" is "wikod". "Wimid" is "on (the surface of), upon, in contact with and supported by",...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I based these words for "if" on Lojban equivalents. The Latejami basic word for "if" is...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, veoler@... ... "Zik" is the first word beginning with "zi-". Part-of-speech endings are ...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, ... I don't understand your question. Could you rephrase it? Saweli has several words that...
In a message dated 4/9/2009 20:55:01 Eastern Daylight Time, veoler@... ... Not according to Wierzbicka (_Semantics: Primes and Universals_, pp. 97-99). ...
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