Posted by Kazper at 12:58pm Aug 3 '08A table that in a particular instance is used for a picnic isn't necessarily a picnic-table. A picnic-table may have a particular shape or set of shapes as well as the regular function of serving as a table for picnics. This, I think, is the reason, at least one, for creating compound words (an agglutinated phrase/a stuck together phrase) instead of just using the seperated phrase.
x1 sit on table that is being used for a picnic.
x1 sit on picnic-table.
In the former it could be any style of table. In the latter it is more restricted. Even in "table that one use for picnic" the table isn't necessarily a picnic-table. It could just be someones... fold up plastic table that they use for picnics. So even if the compound word is literally "table-that-one-use-for-picnic" it is different from a seperated phrase that is exactly the same.
Basically, I think that if you use a phrase instead of a compound word when you're tryin' to get across... a particular individual thing or a particular general thing then what you'll get across... is just an instance... a temporary narrowing. Argh! Still can't explain it good!
It's not exactly true that some dialects aren't superior to others. So it's the same with languages. Depending on criteria that one or a group are looking for in a language some languages can be superior to others.
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
x1 sit on table that is being used for a picnic.
x1 sit on picnic-table.
In the former it could be any style of table. In the latter it is more restricted. Even in "table that one use for picnic" the table isn't necessarily a picnic-table. It could just be someones... fold up plastic table that they use for picnics. So even if the compound word is literally "table-that-one-use-for-picnic" it is different from a seperated phrase that is exactly the same.
Basically, I think that if you use a phrase instead of a compound word when you're tryin' to get across... a particular individual thing or a particular general thing then what you'll get across... is just an instance... a temporary narrowing. Argh! Still can't explain it good!
It's not exactly true that some dialects aren't superior to others. So it's the same with languages. Depending on criteria that one or a group are looking for in a language some languages can be superior to others.
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
Ruminations. - Kazper