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In a world increasingly reliant on innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology, could Swahili lend to English its m- prefix to capture entities that are at once biological and man-made?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This special prefix, m- or mu- in the singular, is associated with plant life and natural forces, such as fire and wind.xiii For example, the Swahili word for “tree” is mti.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In a world increasingly reliant on innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology, could Swahili lend to English its m- prefix to capture entities that are at once biological and man-made?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This special prefix, m- or mu- in the singular, is associated with plant life and natural forces, such as fire and wind.xiii For example, the Swahili word for “tree” is mti.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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xiiiIn Swahili, this prefix is clearly marked as special only in its plural form, mi-, because in the singular m-/mu- it overlaps with another noun prefix.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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xiiiIn Swahili, this prefix is clearly marked as special only in its plural form, mi-, because in the singular m-/mu- it overlaps with another noun prefix.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Every noun belongs to a particular class, and this classification is recognized by the various initial forms such as m-/mu-, which put the noun’s grammatical monarchy or chieftaincy upon the verb, the adjective, and all the other parts of speech.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It’s not difficult to picture English adopting a device like the Swahili m- and putting it to use in inventive ways.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Every noun belongs to a particular class, and this classification is recognized by the various initial forms such as m-/mu-, which put the noun’s grammatical monarchy or chieftaincy upon the verb, the adjective, and all the other parts of speech.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Other nouns in this m- class are parts of organisms, as in the word for “heart,” moyo.xiv With this in mind, let’s perform Swahili heart surgery on English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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