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RE: "creative"

d'Armond Speers, Ph.D. ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



> Anyone can be creative. Not just craftsmen, but not everyone is.
> Yes {chenmoHlaH} means "be creative", but what I mean is not just being
> able, but also doing it spontaneous and actually *doing* it 8-)

{chenmoHlaH} does not mean "be creative."  It means "he can create (it)"
(and other null-prefix options).  You can't, for instance, say *{ghot
chenmoHlaH} to mean "creative person"; this means "he can create a person."

Just wanted to clear that up.

> Thorwald Peeters

--Holtej






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