I've added a bit to chapter two at the end, about ha and bui. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Visit my website at: http://homepage.mac.com/rmay/ Great leadership...
I'm thinking about the name problem. Loglan and Lojban have an awkward way of doing names, which is why I selected the 'ti' to mark names. Now, I'm thinking...
I've been looking thru other logical languages to see how names are dealt with, and I must admit to having a problem with the whole name thing. It seems to me...
snip Go ten forduzotomo. (forduzoba) I have a Ford. ... links the name ... Or maybe a name-opener, which would be 'bezo'. One thing to remember is that the...
... From: "Rex May - Baloo" ... way ... It ... Of these choices, I'd like (on esthetic grounds) either ye or se. The others seem almost obtrusive or weird to...
Rex May - Baloo <rmay@...> wrote:All that works for names of countries. BTW, we can also make it clear, if necessary, that we're naming a country by using...
... Any of the ones with voiced fricative + /e/ sound OK to me. But I'm wondering how much you've considered using prefix vs. suffix for this? I use several...
... I _think_ that foreign names are a different animal. Ceqli names will fit Ceqli wordshape, and I think I have to go at foreign names with a different ...
... Very interesting stuff. I could just use your ya (/Za/ in current Ceqli)! But if it's a suffix, which I think (and evidently you think) is the best way to...
... cover ... I don't think it's important whether "caia" is pronounced with the "i" diphthonging to the first "a" or the second. The distinction in...
... the "i" ... pronunciation is ... there's no ... different ... Actually, you're completely correct. Now with, say, 'gaua,' I can detect a slight difference...
To summarize, then, names will behave like pronouns in Ceqli. That is, there need be no 'ti' the-word to set them off. They will be marked by a bound morpheme...
... I like -zo slightly better than -se; your earlier idea of /Ze/, "ye", was pretty good too. But I don't see a big difference among them. ... Again,...
... se ... will ... Because the name particle will frequently follow nasals and liquids, which are voiced, it's easier to have the name particle begin with a ...
I'm trying to pin down just what the transitive-intransitive thing really means, and what it implies for how ceqli should work. It seems that there are words...
... I'm not a real linguist, but I think you might be misusing the word "transitive". If a *verb* doesn't have an *object* in a particular sentence, it's...
Further thoughts.... ... It seems there are several kinds of grammatical intransitivity. One results from leaving out the object that a normally transitive...
... sentence, ... transitive, ... Indeed. You're right. I'm thinking of 'intransitive' as verbs that _can't_ have an object, whereas I think of "I read" as a...
... of a ceqli verb that can't have an object. Anyhow, this all comes from my musing about the "The food cooks" and "I cook the food" thing in English, which...
Some languages (Arabic, I think) seem to get by with a single word for "long" and "tall." Since tall just means "long in a vertical direction, I think ceqli...
on 6/19/05 12:50 AM, steve rice at ansric@... wrote: ... of a ceqli verb that can't have an object. Anyhow, this all comes from my musing about the "The...
... That sounds good. But how will you say something like "the room is five meters long, three meters wide, and two and a half meters high"? Probably more...
Just so you'll all know, I'm in the tedious process of revamping the glossary in Filemaker, and I expect to have it ready to upload in a few days. Now's a...
