Creyeditor wrote:k1234567890y wrote:how about having a language where it is impossible to describe something in a neutral, impersonal way and one is forced to add their personal feelings when describing a phenomenon, and if one has a neutral feeling, they must describe it as they had a positive feeling towards it, maybe this can be achieved by the use of evidentials.
I thought Láadan had something like that.
ok (:
I have heard that in the Turkana language, almost every compound word is exocentric, maybe we can try this feature?
also, maybe we can consider to make a language without any derivational affix and any convenient(albeit they might be abstract) word like "thing", "property", etc., that is, you must use some other ways to describe certain phenomena where English uses affixes like -ness, -ity, etc., and as far as I know, many ancient languages didn't really have the concept "thing", but they could still describe a lot of concepts.
Even we don't have words for affixes for "-ness", we can still have a way to describe them, it is said that Chinese sometimes combine two antonyms to describe "the quality of..." and some other things, for example, in Chinese, the word "size" is 大小, which is from 大 "(be) big" + 小 "(be) small", although Modern Chinese also uses the morpheme "-性" to denote the meaning "-ness"("-度" also means "-ness", but -度 means the measure rather than the quality), although being a speaker of Chinese, I don't think combinations like "大性" sounds good for "bigness".
I prefer to not be referred to with masculine pronouns and nouns such as “he/him/his”.