Earth Language Idiomatic heads for working with others


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Traditional languages usually each have an idiomatical polite way for a conversation.
Others need time to learn about it, besides that language.
If careless about it, friction could happen between cultures.
A common language, EL should avoid the problem,
clearing the point of the purpose of a sentence to work with others.

Then EL idiomatically uses joined-character heads for sentences to work with others.
English users might think them impolite through the direct translations.
But simplicity and clearness are the polite and kind elements in the EL world, especially for EL signing.


Greeting
To work with others

To call other's attention . Interrogative types .
Imperative types . Exclamatory types

Answering, Appreciation, celebration, apology, etc.
Visual expressions
Honorific and despising expressions


Greeting

{ eternally, balancing/harmonizing, globe}: The almighty greeting symbol in EL.

It helps to start a communication, and to close the communication between Earth People.
In a letter or email, the message starts after this.
Also this hand-sign or the vocal-symbol [bo-na-fee-na-wa] works for just a general greeting
when you are going to pass by someone,
as Hello, Good morning, Good day, Good evening, Good bye etc.

There are various direct meanings for a greeting word in the world,
but most of them have a peace-sought image in the meaning.
So EL is set similarly for the standard greeting.
Of course you can add or create your own expressions.

To work with others, using a couple of in the head

EL is free for word order in a sentence;
and an order of SVO, VSO or whatever order doesn't tell what kind of sentence.

Instead, idiomatic joined-characters distinguish kinds of sentences.
At the beginning of somebody's talking to you,
you can know what kind he started to work with you for: asking, requiring, commanding
or just getting your attention, etc. through a key ideogram between two in the head.
For other purpose, the single basis does not locate on the head of a sentence.
So you immediately know what kind of message on the beginning of a sentence
and can ready to get the contents.

To call other's attention

: "Hey!" or "Attention please"

(39) means sense and feeling.
This basis is for focusing any kind of sense of the other people (person) in this phrase;
as 'Attention please', 'Listen!', 'Look!', 'Touch and feel!', 'Smell!' and 'Taste!' or just 'Hey!.'

When calling a particular person (or people) with this,
add the name or the substitute title and another , as the head phrase.
This phrase is an extra-head of a sentence, so even if the subject of the sentence
is not on top but next to it, the subject-indicator is not necessary.

  : Hey, lady! you dropped something.
: {17,19,65} (a title of honor for woman}, : {02,18}(dropping}
: {15,50,57}: something (a particular thing that the talker isn't sure what it is)

Interrogative types

Using the head, : May I inquire you (something)?

(57) has a similar shape to the traditional question mark, and it shows a wondering situation.
All interrogative sentences have this head .
When seeing this head, the sender has a question wanting the answer.

Also the spot of the inquiry has another in an interrogative sentence.
Where, when, why, which way, what result, how much, how large, etc.,
all those interrogative ideograms include the basis in each C-c (Compounded-characters),
combining with the matter that the questioner wants to know.
The wondering spot in an inquiry is indicated by one of these interrogative C-cs
or just putting in front of the questioning ideogram(s).
See the #57 section of the EL Dictionary about those interrogative ideograms.
When wondering if it's true or not about a verb phrase in a sentence,
is compounded on top of the verb-symbol or in front of the verb-symbol.
So it is always easy to know that the other is making a question and it is about what.

: What (or Who) is she?
{19,34}: she, {gd,54(existence)}: be as a existence,
The talker wants to know what she is. (The complement is the point of the question)
: Which person is she?
(The subject person(65) is the point of the question)
: Is she (there)?
(The verb is the point of the question, wondering if she exist (there or in this world) or not.)
: How is she?
{gd,53(condition): "be:\" as a condition; The talker wants to know her condition.

: Which flower do you like?
{30(pointed),57}: which (among limited flowers), {66,68}: flower, {34,61}: you,
{25(plus-image),39(sense),68(heart)}: liking, being fond of
( In this case, the direct object of the sentence shown by is the point of question.)

: What (kind of) flower do you like?
(among flowers without limits)

Using the tail of a sentence, : ..., isn't it? ..., didn't you?

As saying “It's one thirty now, isn't it?” or “You didn't go there yesterday, did you?”,
we sometimes describe our opinion first and ask others to make it sure.

For this type of interrogative sentence, EL does not use the interrogative head,
and just add these joined-characters at the end of the kind of wondering sentence.
means “or,” and the tail means “…, or another opinion do you have?”
This ending is a kind of pause, so no period is needed after this.

  : She was there at that time, wasn't she?
{34,36}: (at) the time, then, {01,10,34}(the place in a topic): there
{{gd,54}(be),19(past tense)}: was (in this case)

  : This building is not her house, is it?
{18,34}: this (pointing close thing), {10(place),48(covered)}: building, {denied "be"}: is/are not
{{10,48}(building)+{10, 67}(home)}: house

Imperative types

... : ( Could you ) please do ... (something)

(55) has a shape of scooping to get something, meaning “demand.”
This joined-characters-head works for general requesting, forming an imperative sentence.
It is not especially polite, nor impolite.
For expressing the request more modestly or strongly as commanding,
compound each meaning basis on top of .
The sentences with the -head requests something to someone in front directly.
So the subject is not necessary in this kind of sentence, as well as English imperatives.
For calling someone to request something, the manner is the same as “the head for attention.”

: Please write your name here.
{{18,34}(this), 10(place)}: here, : your (in this case, modifying the next noun), : name
{28(plane/surface),54(being)}: written, drawn (exist on a plane)

:
Could you please read this, and make me understand the contents?
{15,34,39}: reading (recognizing through eyes), {14,15}: understood ( recognition goes through),
{34,47}: contents

To request from a little more humble standpoint:
..... :
Could you do me a favor.....?, If you could, may I ask you....

Requesting something to someone who isn't expecting it,
it would be better to do it with more modest manner.
For this kind of case, {55,68}(wish) is used instead of only in the request-head,
and send the message with the composition of the sentence as
“I wish you do something in my mind and hesitate to ask if it's all right to you.”

:
If you could, may I ask you to dance with me?
{56(action),41(move),44(energy-opened)}: dance,
{gc (preposition),25(joining)}: with, {34,62}: me (in this case, with )

:
Could you do me a favor to open that window?
(44): opened, : that pointing far something
{{10,47}:room, {34.39}: eye}: window(s)

To command strongly:
: This is a command, (do .....!)

Forcing someone to do something, the basis, (means power, force) is compounded
on top of j in the request-head. The C-c, {51,55} means “a command.”

  : Get up, or you will be late.
{ torso, upturn}: get up (with gd)
{gd,20}: future tense verb-symbol, {36 time, 62 behind, 54 be}: be late (with gd)

To call others to do something together:
(or ): Let's.....

Here 25(joined) is compounded on top of and also the verb-symbol.
The sentence with this head and the verb shows that the subject of this sentence is
not only you, The talker is joining you, and suggests doing something both together.

: Let's go through this road.
( the people who go are you and me together)
{gd,25} / {21(heading),41(move)}: go (with gd)
{gc,14(way)}: through / {10,14}: road

For suggesting a little more modestly or hesitate to suggest,

the hesitate and polite tail can be added at the end of the sentence,
as same as a type of interrogative sentence.

:
Let's go through this road, or do you have any other ideas?

Exclamatory types

: Ah! / : Ups

In a conversation, sometimes an emotional sound comes up.
For describing it, expressing the sound part with the EL phonetics is one way.
By that way, it might be interesting to know differences of emotional sound between cultures.
But sometimes it would be hard to know each other’s feeling by that.
When expressing using ideograms, these joined-heads are used as below.

{41(move),68(heart)}: emotion; this is for an emotional expression,
{42(wave),68}: surprised ; this is for a surprised or frightened expression.

When these ideograms are in a head (between two dots),
it works like an emotional voice with an exclamation mark.
Read them, changing each into your traditional sounds.
Voices from happiness and from anger are different.
When you’d like to distinguish the feelings of sounds,
you can also use other –included ideograms for the head.
The ideograms related to emotions are in #68 section in the dictionary.

  :
Ah..!, Nobody can listen to this story without tears.
{65 person, 69 zero}: nobody, {gd, 58possible}: can
{{36,39} ears, 47accepted}}: listen to (with gd)
{42 flowing), {34,47} contents}: story, {gc (preposition),05not} : without
{{34,39} eyes, 59 water}: tears, weeping

   
Oh my god! At such a place like this, I'm seeing her!..

Comparison:
The following sentence looks similar to the above example,
but the meaning is very different. In this case, the ideogram, isn’t used as the head;
and the meaning is gotten through just general rules.

    : ”Emotion, question,” these are psychological works.
(There is no in the head)

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