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I'm thinking about a tad bit of loglanization for Tceqli, specifically Loglan's use of the devices po, pu, and zo, described here: ...
Rex May
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1620
... Hm. Now, in English "I know to read." is analagous with "I remember/forget to read." My problem is that I'm an English- speaker and that's what 'know'...
Rex May
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Semivowels bother me. I've flipped back and forth in Tceqli, allowing ai, ei, oi, ui to be diphthongs, because they look better to me than ay, ey, etc. OTOH,...
Rex May
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OTOH, if y and w disappear, we'll lose all those neat French (and other) borrowings like bwa, dwa, fwa, kwa. At this point I'm talking myself into letting i...
Rex May
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Inspired by LFN's Franka and a very good suggestion from Dana, I added a mascot to the Ceqli site. http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm Pretty cute, if...
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I'm still puzzling over names. At this point, Ceqli has two ways to designate names. With the 'ti', analalgous to Loglan 'la', and the morph 'zo', which is a...
Rex May
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Jan 6, 2007
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From: ceqli@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ceqli@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rex May ... I would say just stick with "ti" and eliminate the suffix. That way "ti"...
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Jan 7, 2007
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... Hm. Now I'm trying to retrace my thinking in adding the -zo in the first place. But I like your new definition of "ti". That just might solve the...
Rex May
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... But you could write compounds with a space between "ti fran pan", or not require a marker on derivatives or compounds. ... Since it's no longer a proper...
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Jan 7, 2007
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... Or "air bubble cheese"? -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm...
Jim Henry
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Jan 8, 2007
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... Such solutions might work, but the basic principle of being able to use a name in a compound remains. And the point is that in, say helvezofroma, the helve...
Rex May
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Jan 8, 2007
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I have to agree that, the confusion of "Swiss cheese" notwithstanding, zo seems redundant. I'd stick just with ti. John Schilke, MD jfs.md@......
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... In a way, it is indeed redundant. Let me summarize the situation as I see it: 1. Names are, and should be, a separate category. Thing is, the category is...
Rex May
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Jan 8, 2007
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... That's even better....
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... That's even better....
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1634
... "japanzohaym" is more concise than "ti japan beti sa haym"; I would suggest keeping "zo" but maybe limiting its scope to _only_ deriving compounds from...
Jim Henry
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Jan 9, 2007
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I've given this a lot of thought, and I think I may have a solution. First, the normal Ceqli system is to have 'bracket particles' of the form x...beX. to...
Rex May
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Jan 11, 2007
3:34 am
1636
Not getting any input, but I've just about decided that za...zo is the way to go for names. Speaking of names, I've been thinking about latin scientific terms...
Rex May
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Jan 15, 2007
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... way to go ... I still don't care for the double markers. One should be sufficient. ... "homo ... Indeed, ... think. Is ... NOT names ... Some type of...
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Jan 16, 2007
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... I think one will be sufficient in almost all cases. deynazo sta to dom. go xaw deynazo. but for a long, stringy name like "The national association of ...
Rex May
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Jan 16, 2007
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As some of you know, I recently retired, and now that I've got my home business in pretty good shape and moving along, I have time to devote to Ceqli that I...
Rex May
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Jan 21, 2007
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(#^*&ing HTML e-mail!) ... Congrats. (Is there a Ceqli word for that?) ... My current "unemployed" status is doing that for me. Unfortunately the lack of...
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Jan 21, 2007
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... Oh, I like it, too. It's neat and instinctive. But here's the rub — If it's a single phoneme, then, logically, so should dj and ts and pf and kx be...
Rex May
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Jan 21, 2007
8:19 pm
1642
... <pf> and <kx> are not affricates. The articulation points for [p] and [f] are different, and same for [k] and [S]. <ts> and <dj> may be. The point being...
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Jan 21, 2007
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... Yes, well, if tS is a phoneme, dZ just about has to be by any standards. And the other examples are, I admit at least arguable. Well, whether they are or...
Rex May
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Jan 21, 2007
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(There's that *#$&$& HTML again!) From: ceqli@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ceqli@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rex May ... No reason why not. ... See #3. ... I...
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Jan 22, 2007
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1645
... Okay, I'm convinced. Only change is that j = /dZ/, and Ceqli has no /Z/...
Rex May
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Jan 22, 2007
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1646
Okay, that much is baselined. I've decided to do all this on a PBWiki. What I have so far is at http://ceqli.pbwiki.com/FrontPage Please critique as needed. ...
Rex May
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Jan 22, 2007
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From: ceqli@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ceqli@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rex May ... This may have something to do with PBWiki because I saw the same thing on...
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... You're absolutely right. ... Rex May rmay@... 1-970-221-5528 Daily cartoon at: http://www.humorousmaximus.com/cartoons/rex_may.php See some of my other...
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