Re: Gerunds and Entities
Saul Epstein 
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:00:16 -0600

From: Rob Zook <lalaith*unicom,net>
Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 4:13 PM
> 
> At 07:18 PM 11/9/97 -0600, Saul wrote:
> >To make
> >an "entity" or a noun from this "action/state" probably requires
> >making it a gerund though. Currently, the gerund suffix is "-at"
> >which, unfortunately, is also the genitive or possessive suffix.
So I
> >wonder now if anyone would mind if we change the gerund suffix to
> >"-te." Doing so would have the side benefit of partly translating
the
> >government bodies from _Spock's_World_. If we do this,
"linguistics"
> >might be
> >
> >	pralakhute
> >
> >and other fields of study could be similarly named.
> 
> Makes some sense to me, although I'm not sure what "gerund" means.

A gerund is a noun derived from a verb -- sort of a way of referring
to an action as a thing.
 
> >Anyway, I couldn't find in the lexicon a word that would do for
> >"department" or "division" or "that which is a distinct part of
> >something larger." There are plenty of words dealing with
separation
> >in a more severe sense -- like "outcaste" -- but that's not what
I'm
> >after. So we'll just have to make something up, like... /ngox/. So
> >"linguistics department could be
> >
> >	pralakhute ngox
> >
> >How does that strike you?
> 
> Works for me. 

Cool.

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