George Boeree | Re: [europidgin] Re: Eurocreole?

• Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
• Tema: Re: [europidgin] Re: Eurocreole?
• Data: 2002-09-13 20:08
• Mesaje: 36 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Here's LFN totally "pidginized:"

las -- for definite plurals (la omes > las om)
poca, alga, multe, tota -- for indefinite plurals (omes > alga ome)

se -- for passive participles (el es donada > el es se dona; la donada >
la se dona)
ce -- for active participles (la om donante > la om ce dona; la donante
> el ce dona)

va -- for future tense (el finira > el va fini)
e -- for past tense (el finiva > el e fini) (use i instead of e for and)

lo --  for gerunds (amar > lo ama) and abstract nouns (sajia > lo saja)

fa -  for making causative verbs from adjectives (umidir > fa umida)
fa ne - for negative causative verbs with des-  eg desinfeta > fa ne
infeta

person -- for -or  (carnor > carne person)
macina -- for -ador  (lavador > lava macina)
boteca, loca, etc. -- for -eria  (carneria > carne boteca)

and so on...

This is something I came up with about 30 years ago, but rejected:
While it makes for quick and easy first time learning, it soon becomes
cumbersome.  I now think of suffixes and prefixes as wonderful
abbreviations for otherwise long phrases!

George