George Boeree | Re: [europidgin] (tema vacua)

• Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
• Tema: Re: [europidgin] (tema vacua)
• Data: 2002-09-19 12:29
• Mesaje: 159 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Kevin Smith wrote:

>  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
>
On the other hand, if you don't know the meaning of the word, you may
know the structure, but you still won't know what the sentence means!

My best,

George