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on 3/30/02 1:12 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: >> I'd say that, at this point, there isn't much difference between >> I eat and sleep and I both eat and sleep. It's more of an emphasis in the >> latter, I guess. > > The English with just "and" seems a bit ambiguous to me. How so? Or did the 'and' connecting the two sentences screw things up. I eat and sleep. Go kom kay dorm. I both eat and sleep. Is the first really ambiguous this way? The 'both' in English really works as a beginning parenthesis, sort of, telling you that an 'and' structure is coming up. Loglan has something similar, with what they call 'forethought connectives'. If we do have something like that, I'd like it to be generalized to be used with kor, kanor, oand maybe other conjunctions. > > There's probably also a need for something like "I read the book while > eating a ham sandwich." However, we should probably start a separate > thread on aspect. Yes, separate thread. But in keeping with using tense indicators as conjuctions, I'm thinking of gi(ke) Go pa kom doke da dorm. I ate when he slept. Go pa kom gike da dorm. I ate while he slept. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/