I've decided that the Ceqli word for 'person' should be 'so' from Eng. 'so-and-so'. It can be used alone or as an ending (gunso - gunman). And 'xi' means...
... [...] ... [...] ... I could see how one might think---no, make that 'feel'---you're favoring males in that 'person' is a word ending in o matches with male...
Alexander Browne
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Feb 9, 2003 5:23 am
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... You know, you're right. And it sort of offends my own sense of symmetry. I could go back to the original 'cel' for 'person'.... Let's see: We want three...
... Very good reasoning. A couple of points: rV and yV are not possible as Ceqli morphs because of the phonology rules, alas. XI - SA - ZO would be my choice,...
... I really have to wonder why you made schwa an allophone of 'e'. Sure, it makes 'be' slightly easier to say, but the problem with 'a' is going to keep...
... I agonized a long time, believe me. I finally went with German phonology/spelling as a guide. The problem, as I saw it, was that I wanted a set of...
... A paragraph with ' for schwa looks awful to me. On a minor note, to indicate ' you need weird html tags for the website. Also, the alphabetization system...
Mike Wright makes this suggestion: "Seems like if you want to maintain the frer-frero-freri system, you need something more like: jin - person (Sino-Japanese...
... I say forget frer-frero-freri. The big deal about Ceqli is how easy it is to make compound words, so why not do it that way with frer/frerjo/frerxi? ...
... Here's my reasoning. Kinship terms in particular are going to often be compounds. Pamipamofreri is unambiguous. It means the sister of one's mother's...
Okay, I've taken in what everybody's said about that damn schwa, and I think I have it fixed at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.htm at "Exception to the...
I switched "se" back to "sa" for the separator particle, and then adapted "se" for the following in the grammar: SE (from French "ce") The word "se" can...
... Good. I hoped so. I did in fact get it from the French usage. Now, I want a word like Glosa 'co', which has a similar usage, meaning 'that just said'. ...
Go kaw zi dormho. I cause you sleep-become. Go siq kaw zi dormho. That I sing causes you to go to sleep. Zi dormho bekaw go siq. You go to sleep because I...
... Even without Lojbanesque abstractions, I think it's important to have the separator word suggested earlier on, 'ke', roughly serving the purpose of 'that'....
... Agreed. Certainly in written Ceqli. I think you can drop the 'ke' in speech where intonation and stress make the meaning clear. But when in doubt, keep...
Which do we prefer for 'country', as a combining form, "stan" or "haym"? US - hamerstan or hamerhaym France - franstan or franhaym China - cuqstan or cuqhaym ...
Hola a todos. Lo primero que se plantea, cuando varios auxilingüistas desean construir un idioma internacional para usarlo realmente, es el idioma en el que...
Ci, ca, cu, are the words for here, there(by you), there (remote from both) Cisa, casa, and cusa are 'adjective' forms, meaning this, that(by you), that ...
... Good. Of course, the speaker has the option to use the -da forms, or the -diq (cidiq, cadiq, cudiq) when definitely speaking of "things." Or, for that...
... I like the -da forms too. But now I've lost track of whether the -vo forms have been dropped, or whether "cavo" is still a possible alternative to "cada"...
... And do we also have these forms?: kwadiq —what (thing): kwada - what (pronoun); cidiq — this thing: cida - this (pronoun); cadiq — that thing (by...
