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cntrational wrote:just as an evidence-based foundation of ethics will allow us to form a better system of complete ethics.

What exactly do you mean by "an evidence-based foundation of ethics"?

Ethics isn't psychology, it's ethics. No one ever tried to use deductive reasoning to figure out what the intuitions of the whole of humanity were, they used them to figure out which set of ethics was *correct*.

cntrational wrote: Even things like ethics, considered the domain of philosophy, may be solved by the scientific application of game theory, evolution, and psychology.

Lmao, no. No they may not. How do you suppose that would work?

I'd enjoy mongolian lessons as well

It's not a stupid question [:)] class I verbs can't directly take the transitive marker *ever*. The only way one of those roots would coexist with the transitive marker is if there was a causative or applicative or something also there. The reason why I take these to be different in a significant wa...

Transitivity and Verb Classes There are 3 verb classes in Caako, defined by how they behave with respect to the transitivizer morpheme -n- class I: 'naturally transitive', requires no transitive marker in any case; includes verbs like 'give', 'eat', etc. class II: 'naturally intransitive', requires ...

Just a fun little sketch I came up with recently. /p t ts tʃ k kʷ q qʷ/ <p t ts ch k kw q qw> /s ɬ ʃ ɣ h/ <s lh sh g h> /m n ŋ l w y/ <m n ng l w y> /i a o i: a: o:/ <i a o ii aa oo> (C)V(C) PS: more on caako soon! I've just been really busy with school the past couple weeks

the V in tV- varies but it's usually /a/. ne- and -saŋ are just generic subject and object. tV- is unique among this group of morphemes in that nouns derived from it can often be pretty far semantically from the root verb, and also it usually indicates that the person does this sort of thing habitua...

Sorry to the audience, I disappeared for a week. But here's more stuff. There are a couple different ways of deriving nouns in Caako. But new ones are mostly derived from verbs. tV- : a prefix, forms human agent of a verb: tabáwe - A-eat.NMLZ-INTENS : glutton as per the example, derived nouns of thi...

shimobaatar wrote: Next: eŋ /ɛŋ/ n. person

kéŋ ['keŋ] - human


Next: asˀiníˀ [asʔi'niʔ] - ghost

shimobaatar wrote: Next: mallivo /mɑlˈliwɔ/ num. eleven

mulé [mu'le] - pair

Next: pápaj ['papað] - carrot

That poem wasn't written in Modern Chinese, just sayin'

Well, we are not amoebae. Nothing is ever simple with humans. I think to discuss further I need to know whether you believe in evolution or not. Amoebas can be pretty complicated depending on how you look at it. I'm not really sure what you mean by "nothing is ever simple with humans" -- ...

I liked the symmetry it has with the SAP vs. non-SAP agreement on verbs.

Ah, so -ni is significantly more common, even in the "standard" form of the language? yep. [:)] Is there any particular reason for this, historical or otherwise? Are other pronouns completely regular, then? The honest reason is that I didn't like the sound of the regular forms, the more f...

I meant „purpose“ in the sense of an „internal governing principle“. Why do we like sex so much? Why do we fight for resources and try to achieve the highest status possible? Because we have inbuilt imperatives supposed to help us further our genes. Also, „purpose“ doesn’t mean „destiny“. "We&...

Okay, so we've talked about the inverse marker -ŋ and the topic marker -ké . The only other 'case marker' we need to talk about is the oblique marker, used with all non-direct arguments (i.e. any noun modified by a preposition, indirect objects, etc.) It takes the form of a suffix -na~-ni . The phon...

And life definitely has an inbuilt purpose: its own perpetuation. I don't see how we can conclude from the evidence we have that life is *inherently* purposeful; self-perpetuation is a thing it is very good at but as far as we know all creatures die so life has just as regular a record of ending as...

It's alright. My first post was pretty sloppy and "scratchpad-y" so it's not surprising if people happen to not understand.

No, it usually acts similar to other languages. Here's a list of examples to elaborate the usage more clearly: I hit him: Co a pančúˀ co a p-n-ču-ˀ 1S 3S SAP-TR-hit-PST "I hit him" but, A coŋ pančúˀ A co-ŋ p-n-ču-ˀ 3S 1S-INV SAP-TR-hit-PST "He hit me" However, we can have Co a pa...