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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6385 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 5 26 February 2014 at 2:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thought some of you might be interested in this short interview of a missionary who devised a writing system for Nakui, a language in Papua New Guinea.
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5605 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 5 26 February 2014 at 9:41am | IP Logged | |||||
What does he mean? Which three? 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6709 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 26 February 2014 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I also found the remark about three verbal tenses in English somewhat confusing, but taking in consideration that almost all young men and a third of the young women in the tribe have learned to write using the proposed new writing system for Nakui it can't be totally off the mark in the way things are written. And then it is less important whether its creators have taking all the fashionable trends in modern linguistics in consideration. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6445 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 5 28 February 2014 at 1:24am | IP Logged | |||||
Presumably past, present, and future; degree of remoteness isn't reflected in English grammar, unlike in some languages. See Comrie's book, "Tense". I shan't comment further on the article itself, as it was risible. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6709 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 28 February 2014 at 10:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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There is no synthetic future in English, just an analytical circumlocution with a progressive variant - and if you take those into consideration you should also include the pluperfect and its progressive partner. But who cares? The point is that Nakui now can be written, and the main problem now is whether there is anything to read in that language.
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