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...
... At this point, I do have 'ka', meaning an instance of. komka - meal, etc. And jin seems to work pretty well. It's a feature of Ceqli that a compound...
Quick question. If I borrow German 'Himmel,' should it be realized as himl, himle, or himla (himel would be hi-MEL and too much of a distortion, I think.)....
You know, what looks best to me in print is falling diphthongs with u and i — ai, au, ei, oi — but rising diphthongs with y and w — ya wi, we, etc. And...
... "kalajin" could signify merman/mermaid. But maybe that should be "jinkala" while "kalajin" signifies someone non-professionally associated with fish? ...
... "himl" with syllabic /l=/ would be closest to the German, but I don't think an auxlang should use syllabic consonants (or final clusters like "ml"). So I...
... Agree with the himla. I might pick another word, but what I'm looking for is a good pattern to borrow words of the same form from German, English, and...
... Alternatively, you could drop some of the fricative/affricate contrasts. Dropping all affricates entirely might require too extensive changes to the...
... All things being equal, I'm trying to reserve short words like 'him' for more frequently used meanings, and I figure heaven to be an infrequent one. Rex...
... That would be an excellent strategy for an auxlang, and it ought to be tried. ... And I think that's the way I'll go. ... That's true. Improvising.... ...
I hereby propose: B as in Boy C as in SHine D as in DuD F as in FluFF G as in Good H as in Hat J as in pleaSure, Je suis. K as in KinK L as in LuLL M as in MiM...
... <snip> ... Looks good. I hope when you redo the phonology/ orthography web page you will do a table with this vague pronunciation guide *in addition to* ...
