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Re: [Ladekwa] jawjeacambambembomi to sa bikwa to

In a message dated 11/8/2005 6:26:49 PM Central Standard Time, geoff.hacker@hidden.email writes:


I've been thinking about your word "jawjeacambembomi". Instinctively, I don't like the idea of having to perform both a middle- and an anti-middle-voice operation on the same word. It sounds like the effect of doing this is to place the emphasis on the whole performance of the translation, so shouldn't you instead use the whole performance classifier "kay" to get "jawjeakay", hence "jawjeakay to sa bikwa to"?



Maybe, but I don't make up roots; I only suggest them.  In this case, I was trying to use a word we already have ("jawjeaca") to derive the meaning I wanted, namely, the result of the activity.  I'm not sure that the middle + anti-middle is correct, but I think I should have used the A/P/F-d suffix "-mba" first:  jawjeacambambembomi.  What a mouthful!

stevo