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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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http://www.veche.net/novegradian - Grammar of Novegradian
http://www.veche.net/alashian - Grammar of Alashian

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http://www.veche.net/
http://www.veche.net/novegradian - Grammar of Novegradian
http://www.veche.net/alashian - Grammar of Alashian

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

This is jus tto provide an example of another "mindset", but in Gonardoi (and most of the other Relanian languages) the roots are usually somewhat abstract in nature, not really showing emphasis on any of the senses (though visual, I guess, is used often). The words less so; but they're similar. For example, take the words ruca "mountain" and rutai, rucyai "to hide". They are both derived from the CR root RUK. Strange, aye? To add to the puzzle, ruca can also mean things like "a place deep underground", or "seafloor", along with some others, thoug the primary/usual meaning is "mountain". This is (to some extent, at least) explained by the fact that the root RUK conveys a sense of being hard to reach. ruta (present tense of rutai) comes from ruk-y?, that is, the stem RUK with a causative suffix, thus "to cause to be hard to reach". Ruca (which originally meant "mountaintop", not "mountain") is RUK plus a basic noun prefix, thus "something that is hard to reach".

EDIT: As an addition to the example, the word marruc means "kingship (or more generally "ruler-ship")" (from the roots BHAZ "authority" and RUK above), though marnaia, which could be literally translated as "ruler-hood", can also be used.

Here are some interesting words-k?ftimi(bird), k?ftini(airplane). Both mean "it flies", but the subject is animate on the first and inanimate on the second.

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."