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...
... This notion is based on the Loglan idea, whence Ceqli sprung, that everything is a verb. If I go with it in Ceqli, it means jin = is-a-person to jin =...
I'm redoing the dictionary, and I'm still annoyed about diia. What I want to do is have it possible to have two words,now represented by dia (DYAH) and diia...
... Yes, I'm still working on the dictionary in Filemaker, and now I'm wondering if I made a mistake in dropping the y and w in their semivowel usages....
... That all works are verbs by default doesn't necessarily say anything about what those verbs mean when they are used as nouns. As I said, it makes more...
... It isn't there. It's probably a bad idea of mine to ape the Loglan idea here, but there's something very attractive about it, awkward as it might be....
I've been pondering the set of verbs which can be transitive or intransitive in English. Cook, stand, burn, etc. I don't want that in Ceqli, for obvious...
... Vorlin marked all verbs for transitivity. From noun root words it derived transitive verbs with one suffix and intransitive verbs with another. That...
... Yes, there should be a way to derive nouns from verbs, specifically a noun meaning 'the act of doing X' and a noun meaning 'a person/entity who does X' ...
... As you said recently, maybe it was a mistake to drop the semivowel letters and give |i| and |u| two different pronunciations. 1. I think having /di.a/ in...
... I'm beginning to think so. As it stands, you're given the option of pronouncing a diphthong as two separate vowels, as long as the word is stressed AS...
