Re: [txeqli] KOWI o KAWE I like 'kawe'. What's the German? Ray >> In German "coffee" is "Kaffee" [kaFEY], and "cafe" is either "cafe" [KAfey] or "Kaffeehaus"...
... For me, this particular problem is more esthetic than logical. Pamxi, pamzo, frozo, pampamzo, filxi, zinzo, just sound and look better to me. And with...
... At one point, I had a whole set of kinship terms to avoid this very problem. They were made with sub-morphemes i and o. Pam parent Pami mother pamo father ...
Something I have mused privately about, BTW, is the possibility of letting xi and zo serve, when convenient, as pronouns along with da and the letter names...
John >> Something I have mused privately about, BTW, is the possibility of letting ... Ray >> English does use words like "she-wolf" but uses "he-man" to mean...
John >> Does everybody hate ts? If everybody's against it, what do you think of using 'z' to borrow from german... zan, zal, etc. Ray >> Just a Rex has...
Yeah. What he said. ... you think of using 'z' to borrow from german... zan, zal, etc. ... [Z] and [dZ] I think it is fine to define "z" as a phoneme which ...
... And 'dog female', 'duck male', 'parent female', 'child male', and so on? Still don't like it. Are 'male' and 'female' going to be the only exception, or...
Japanese uses: "ka-no-jo" (da-sa-xi) to mean "she" (informal) or "one's sweetheart"; "a-no-onna-no-hito" (cuvo-sa-xi-sa-pe) for the more formal term referring...
Rex: So Pamzo can be regarded as parent male, or even parental male. I'd be glad to make pamzo and zopam equally acceptable, but that wreaks havoc in ...
on 3/1/02 11:59 PM, Ray Bergmann at rayber@... wrote: Rex: So Pamzo can be regarded as parent male, or even parental male. I'd be glad to make pamzo and...
What does everybody think of first-syllable stress? The vast majority of morphs, remember, will be one or two syllables. I, for one, think it great and a...
What does everybody think of first-syllable stress? The vast majority of morphs, remember, will be one or two syllables. John: I, for one, think it great and...
Rex May - Baloo wrote: [...] ... Do you mean the first syllable of morphs only? BTW, I don't quite grasp: "eu as in wAYWard (Esperanto 'eu^')" Is this /ew/?...
Mike: >> "eu as in wAYWard (Esperanto 'eu^')" Is this /ew/? And it's a diphthong? I don't find any words in the glossary with this sound. Are there likely to...
... No, morphs and compounds. I've been going thru the vocabulary so far, and I can't find a problem with that rule, whereas penultimate stress does indeed ...
It's hard for me to get a handle on what to do here. First off, as consonants only appear at the beginning of a word, we have only the problem of initial...
... In the Ceqli vocabulary, there's no way to tell the difference between a word that could form a compound with another similar word (pe) and a grammatical...
... That's sort of true, which is why I've made the 'the' words all in the form tV(V), as an assistance. 'pe xi, ' BTW, would be a strange combination....
