Aaron's Kazakh
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Massive Light-Verbage
12:51:03 AM jonorthwash: is the word camel + accusative case, and then 5 light verbs strung together, the last one "conjugated" 12:51:25 AM devnullpenguin: ?! 12:51:29 AM devnullpenguin: FIVE light verbs? 12:51:41 AM devnullpenguin: camel eat walk sit stand run do 12:51:44 AM devnullpenguin: = 12:51:46 AM devnullpenguin: "i'm hungry" 12:52:02 AM jonorthwash: wow, that's a good guess 12:52:10 AM devnullpenguin: for serious? 12:52:15 AM jonorthwash: camel-ACC eat-PastPART put-PresPART almost_do-PastPART come-PresPART lie-e.g.,1st.sg
Kazakh Applied to English
12:56:42 AM devnullpenguin: jonw do_homework eat_cookie bribe pretend trick_into_doing sit 12:56:55 AM devnullpenguin: that means "homework cookie"