Kevin Smith | Re: [europidgin] (tema vacua)

• Autor: Kevin Smith (“kevinbsmith”)
• Tema: Re: [europidgin] (tema vacua)
• Data: 2002-09-19 05:56
• Mesaje: 155 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 06:46, George Boeree wrote:
> Second, the meanings of words actually drive the grammar.
> I tried very hard to make it a semantically-driven language,
> where the meaning determines the grammar structure, rather
> than the other way around.

Ah. And it is the opposite of my preference. Since I am unlikely to
already know the meanings of all 500 or 5000 words in a language, I
would like to be able to guess at meanings from context. I don't want to
have to already know (or look up) every word just to figure out how the
sentence is structured.

Kevin