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| gdoyle1990 Groupie United States Joined 5619 days ago 52 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Serbian, Estonian | Message 9 of 14 27 December 2009 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
I had come across infixes in my linguistic research and I thought it was an interesting idea. I was working on a conlang for fun in my free time and I actually used infixes to conjugate verbs, similarly to Na'vi, except my system was riddled with flaws. =[ However, I think that may be one of the reasons I enjoy the language. And the more I read about it, the more I agree about the grammar. It's rather interesting for someone used to European languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6380 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 10 of 14 28 December 2009 at 2:37am | IP Logged | ||
As a side note, English does have an infix. The reason why no one ever mentions it is because it is a certain obscene adjective that starts with F,and thus it doesn't find its way into grammer books. Think about yelling as an interjection "In F---ing credible!" or something along those lines. In a grammatical sense, it does work. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 11 of 14 01 January 2010 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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What I find somewhat irritating is that the Na'vi language "pocket guide" on the Avatar site is "compiled by" someone, but doesn't cite sources, so it's impossible to know if any given feature is the author's own interpretation from lines from the film, or something stated categorically by Paul Frommer, the inventor of the language. The only information I've found from the creator himself is here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1977, and there's a lot more material in the pocket guide. Where does it all come from?
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 12 of 14 01 January 2010 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think the insertion of expletives (usually the F-word) into certain other words and phrases is regarded as tmesis
rather than infixing in English. Another example of tmesis is the phrase "a whole nother". However, English has some very limited examples of morphological infixing. Mainly, the "ma" morpheme in words like "edumacation", and the "pe" morpheme in some chemical names. Edited by Captain Haddock on 01 January 2010 at 2:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5584 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 13 of 14 01 January 2010 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone have an idea what the linguist got paid to create this language?
I seriously could do that all day, make up a language. How much fun would that be to get paid to do that? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6380 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 14 of 14 01 January 2010 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Alot. I imagine there's not many of those jobs around though. Pity... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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