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1a. Re: Sold here / for sale / on sale / on sale here
From: Njenfalgar
1b. Re: Sold here / for sale / on sale / on sale here
From: George Corley
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1a. Re: Sold here / for sale / on sale / on sale here
Posted by: "Njenfalgar" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jun 7, 2013 7:22 am ((PDT))
2013/6/6 Scott Hlad <[email protected]>
> I live in a diverse neighbourhood. If you walk along the main street you
> can
> see signs in Mandarin, Viet Namese and Amharic. Everyday walking from the
> bus I pass a sign at a halal grocery with an Amharic sign that they have a
> product available that says, Sold here. One could also say on sale here
> which at least in the version of English I speak is not the same as on
> sale and again different from for sale.
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> When I think about how that would work in a conlang, I try to envision what
> part of speech the word sold is in sold here.
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> In French if someone were using the for sale it would be à vende. But
> how the other phrases would be in French, I have no idea.
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> So how does this work in other natlangs and conlangs?
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> Scotto
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In Dutch it would "te koop", which literally means "to buy" (which is the
opposite viewpoint from most languages' "to sell"). I can't say for sure
which part of speech "koop" is. There exists a normal "te" + infinitive
construction in Dutch, as in "te doen" ("to-do"), but it appears the
infinitive ending is dropped in "te koop", "te huur" ("for rent") and
similar expressions.
Greets,
David
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uhu tu tinitíhi lise tesahuwese. Lise yésináne, lina, ikéwiyéwa etinizáwa
búwubúwu niyi tutelíhi uhu yegeka.
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1b. Re: Sold here / for sale / on sale / on sale here
Posted by: "George Corley" [email protected]
Date: Fri Jun 7, 2013 7:43 am ((PDT))
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:36 AM, taliesin the storyteller <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-06-07 07:15, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:00:52PM -0500, George Corley wrote:
>>
>>> In an attempt to salvage this somewhat, I can't really comment too
>>> much on the "for sale"/"on sale" distinction in other languages, /../
>>>
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> ... but I can at least comment for my natlang. (AFMNL?)
>
What does AFMNL mean? I didn't comment on for/on sale because my native
language is English, which has been thoroughly covered on this thread, and
I'm not confident about how it would be expressed in other languages I
speak.
> Norwegian:
>
> Something discounted is "på salg".
>
> Something that is posible to buy is "til salgs". I think the final 's' is
> a frozen genitive. Ads in the newspapers for selling stuff often start with
> "til salgs".
Interesting. It would be interesting to see what other uses these
prepositions have.
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