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Re: [saweli] more apostrophes - registers

In a message dated 6/13/2007 11:19:02 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


Note that 'aw is translated with "lea-". An old Latejami legacy, I suppose.

What about irony, sarcasm and so on? Do you think they are registers as
well?

Stephan


I copied/pasted from my file to the email, and just forgot to delete the "lea-".  Almost all of Saweli is a Latejami legacy.

I don't think irony, sarcasm, etc., are registers, since they do not "indicate the social status of the speaker relative to the listener or to a third party. " LS 14.0

"The register [endings] can be applied to any word to indicate its social context."  So these endings can be applied to any words, not just verbs.