Re: Word order in questions, passive voice, active voice.

[Trickster Wolf]

Word order never changes.  Questions are asked by inserting the question word "kur" into a location in a sentence where you want that spot filled.  For example, "How are you?" is roughly (yooh s'kur.) which explicitly means "you containing what".  This is asking the listener to clarify what describes them.

Passive voice doesn't change word order either.  Passive voice is formed by using suhch instead of suh to introduce the direct object.  Somewhat confusingly, Primal can have passive and active voice in the same sentence with the same verb.  For example:

(wee fim s'yooh suhch wooh.)

me jump containing you member-of it.

This means "I jump over you, and it jumps over me," even though the word jump appears but once.

As for the "um" question from your previous email, "um" isn't a language word in English or Primal.  It's an artifact of the noisy channel of speech and a speaker's tendency to drone in order to maintain control of the conversation.  In Primal "uh" is the most common noise utterance but Primal speakers do this less than English speakers do.  There are a few words that are sometimes used as placeholders but it varies by context.

Trickster

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Michelle Moses <michel...@live.com> wrote:

I want to know what kind of situations, if any, the word order changes in primal.

 

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Does word order change as someone asks a question?

 

Statement: That is so.

Question: Is that so?

 

Statement: We are going to plant false evidence.

Question: How are we going to get to plant false evidence?

 

 

 

 

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 Is there a passive AND active voice, in which the word order changes, in primal?

 

Passive: The wall was spray painted by kids

Active:  The Kids spray painted the wall.

 

Passive: Too many suspicious questions were asked by the hotdog vender

Active: The hotdog vender asked too many suspicious questions.

 

Passive voice focuses less on the Object of the sentence (the thing doing the “Doing”) and more on the Subject (the thing that it happened to.) You will find words like “is, was, were, will be, has been, etc.”

 

Active voice focuses more on the object of the sentence and gives less thought to the subject.

 

 

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You don't have to tell the exsact way that it works, I only want to know if it would be a new consept for a native Primal speaker. 

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Thank you:

 

From

michelle.

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