I updated the page with these changes: I decided to keep the original Eo "al." Verb infinitives end in -ar The Eo -ar suffix becomes -arm (suggesting 'swarm') ...
Sorry. I meant to send that to the Texperanto group. Rex May rmay@... See some of my cartoons at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/BALOOWEBSITE/BALOO.html ...
I'm thinking of making topic marking in Ceqli, this way: To xlaq, da pa tsanku to kanin. As for the snake, it bit the dog. To kanin, to xlaq pa tsanku da....
... It should have the same position relative to its headword as other modifier particles. Don't most such particles precede their head in ceqli? -- Jim Henry ...
... Hm. I think you're right. But before we get too deep into this, how about saying. "The topic of a sentence is normally the same as the subject, which ...
... Let's see. Assuming the listener can tell at once whether a word is a noun (or pronoun) or verb -- or which way it is being used in a given context -- ...
... Yes, that's my intention. I need to draw a schematic S —> V —> O ^--------------< You can only go clockwise. ... Yes, and in the case of ambiguity,...
... No. I think I must have misread what you had before. The rule is SVOSV... where you can pick any string of three. SVO, VOS, or OSV. My thinking is that...
Also, I think we can rule that Ceqli can have SVIO, where I is indirect object. True, indirect objects can be expressed other ways: Go ko zi don hon. I give...
I want to maximize Ceqli's ability to make antonyms by reversal. For example, I'm dropping "pomo" (to help) and borrowing "zuai" (to hinder) from Mandarin,...
Detecting a possible problem with "hu" go fu ja jai hu zi pa ja. I will go place you past went. No problem with that. go don zi hon hu gosa pamo pa don...
... That might work, but it might be clearer with a resumptive pronoun: go xau jino hu go pa don hon da. I see man which I past give book him. ....Maybe you...
... Yes. It would be in the Ceqli spirit to allow my shortened version but to use a resumptive pronoun (I hadn't seen that term before, and I like it) when...
... Maybe these problems are evidence you should reconsider the wholen notion of reversing the faloba phonemes for oppositeness. It's nifty, but it seems it...
... I quite agree. I'm just in the process of looking at the vocabulary as it is, and seeing if some more reversals are indeed possible and desirable. I...
... As far as I can tell you haven't really documented the reversal process (or the use of "po-") much on the Ceqli grammar pages yet. When you get around to...
... Pretty good. The formatting might could be made clearer by italicizing the reversal pair words in each sample sentence, e.g.: <P><b>zi <i>ziau</i> to...
... Chapter 4 looks good so far. Other topics that would make sense to treat in the same chapter would be more derivation methods -- use of "be-" to form a...
Not contradicting anything already agreed upon, but trying to look at names from a different angle: The particle 'zo' marks the morpheme or compound before it...
Okay, how does this sound: The basic subject-predicate structure has this meaning S is-a-member-of-the-set-f P. go jino = I am a member of the set of men. go...
How about this? A new word for 'do', zer. go zer tun. I do cartoons go tunzer. I'm a cartoonist go zer starsai. I do astronomy go starsaizer. I'm an...
Okay, I'm still obsessing. The problem with compounds is that they are, Loglan-like, metaphors. Some compounds just cram together modifiers: ga jin > gajin ...
another silly question: bana = invent therefore go bana = I invent, or I'm an inventor Now, I had 'banaba' as 'invention,' but shouldn't it be bebana ? da...
On 1/2/06, Rex May <rmay@...> wrote: ... I am not particular about zer, ser, kar or fe; but I am curious about your using zer to mean both "to do" and...
