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Cherokee nouns and VN
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[EDNOTE. George Shimanovich responds to Stan Kelly-Bootle's take on "agglutinative and polysythetic languages" that "blur the grammatical features familiar to our
list's Indo-European family of tongues." - - SES]
>For example, Cherokee's nouns are often lengthy definitions --
"California"
>is "Out-there-where-they-have-the-gold!" -- so we must avoid insular
>generalizations in matters linguistical. For all I know, the Cherokee for
>"terrace" might be
"out-there-on-the-cool-and-spacious-sipping-iced-tea-grounds" which
>would present DN with an interesting (but surely surmountable) KQK
translation challenge.
Assuming that there is a group of Cherokees out there who read all (not just
"Lolita", as that would invite cliché for many) VN works, how would they
call VN. Something that starts like this: "That writer who ..." Any
Cherokee volunteers in the list?
- George
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list's Indo-European family of tongues." - - SES]
>For example, Cherokee's nouns are often lengthy definitions --
"California"
>is "Out-there-where-they-have-the-gold!" -- so we must avoid insular
>generalizations in matters linguistical. For all I know, the Cherokee for
>"terrace" might be
"out-there-on-the-cool-and-spacious-sipping-iced-tea-grounds" which
>would present DN with an interesting (but surely surmountable) KQK
translation challenge.
Assuming that there is a group of Cherokees out there who read all (not just
"Lolita", as that would invite cliché for many) VN works, how would they
call VN. Something that starts like this: "That writer who ..." Any
Cherokee volunteers in the list?
- George
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