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 The language of the [[species:Threadwielders]] has a simple and flexible grammar, in that it imposes few rules about the composition of sentences. In combination with the language's tendency to [[language:dictionary|portmanteau]] words and shorten them (see below), this has a tendency to cause ambiguities. For situations where clarity is important, or the ambiguity too great, adherence to the recommended sentence structure, without portmanteaus and abbreviations, is expected.
-===== Compound Numbers =====
-The Threadwielder system does not have a fixed base and instead chains [[language:dictionary|numbers]] together as factors. To prevent this from resulting in excessively long words for numbers, the number being used as a base usually has its distinct suffix shortened into a prefix. A final //-atel// suffix is optional.
-If you were so inclined, you could use the long form and just go haywire:
-  aralaraharazarasharar
-  = aralarah'arazarasharar
-  = atel'aralarah'arazarasharar
-  = atel + aral * arah + araz * arash * arar
-  = 0 + 30 + 8
-  = 38 (decimal)
-...but you might get murdered for it. :)
-Example shorthand usage with bases:
-  maraz
-  = atel'maraz
-  = atel'arazaram
-  = atel + araz * (aram)
-  = 0 + 1 * (10^1)
-  = 10 (decimal)
-  matelmaraz
-  = atelatelaramarazaramaram
-  = atel'atelaram'arazaramaram
-  = atel + atel * (aram) + araz * (aram * aram)
-  = 0 + 0 * (10^1) + 1 * (10^2)
-  = 100 (decimal)
-  arahmaraz
-  = arah'maraz
-  = arah'arazaram
-  = arah + araz * (aram)
-  = 6 + 1 * (10^1)
-  = 16 (decimal)
-  arahmarazmaraz
-  = arah'maraz'maraz
-  = arah'arazaram'arazaramaram
-  = arah + araz * (aram) + araz * (aram * aram)
-  = 6 + 1 * (10^1) + 1 * (10^2)
-  = 116 (decimal)
-  arazsharazshatelsharaz
-  = araz'sharaz'shatel'sharaz
-  = araz + araz * (arash) + atel * (arash * arash) + araz * (arash * arash * arash)
-  = 1 + 1 * (2^1) + 0 * (2^2) + 1 * (2^3)
-  = 1011 (base 2)
-  = 11 (decimal)
-  ararharaz
-  = arar'haraz
-  = arar + araz * (arah)
-  = 4 + 1 * (6^1)
-  = 14 (base 6)
-  = 10 (decimal)
 ===== Personal Pronoun Inflections =====
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   * passive negation, //-'va//, not doing something; //sras̈as'va// would be "//not to plead//".
-  * repetition, //na'-//, doing something again / once more, resuming something; //na'quanus// would be "//to live again; to resurrect//".
+  * repetition, //tsu'-//, doing something again / once more, resuming something; //tsu'quanus// would be "//to live again; to resurrect//".
   * active negation, //ta'-//, doing the opposite of something; //ta'vedys// would be "//to forget//".
   * tenses; the 's' is dropped for these: