Anybody know how big a vocabulary I can upload? I remember years back that Geocities (which I'm still using) could only handle so much. I've got 850 words so...
... I have compiled a short list of such resources. See the bottom section of this page: http://qualitycode.com/html/LanguageLinks.html#essays [NOTE: This page...
... Many thanks! Just the thing. Nice page all around, BTW. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: ...
(Sorry about the change of profile name from lsulky to handydad...I'm trying to consolidate.) (Also sorry about the length of this post.) I've always liked...
... That's kind of what I was trying for. Well put. ... Well, 'the' words are like grammar words in Loglan ‹ non-content words. They are the sort of thing...
... Maybe "baker", seems the most sensible meaning to assign to panjin. Or is there already a different way of saying this. ... I think for almost everyone,...
... --SNIP-- ... --SNIP-- ... begin to ... bird' ... --SNIP-- ... be used to ... clarity. --SNIP-- Okay! I was making more of "se"'s role as a decompounder and...
I've modified the alphabet page here http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.htm to reflect what I think we've agreed upon. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at:...
Keep the comments coming. What direction should the language go, starting from what we have at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm -- Rex F. May...
Look at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/gramintro2.html Now, some have objected to the relative weirdness of the pronunciation of ew and uy, and I sort of...
Do we have a list of letter names? I thought I remembered working something out with you a long time ago, but I can't find it on either site. ---larry...
... I've looked, too. We went through a lot of notions. One is that we have one set of names for lower case and one for lower case: b = bew B = buy And as...
So here's what I think I understand from what you've said or my own extrapolation: Cwey = anaphor for most recent "C" thing (noun, verb, modifier) Cway =...
Further thought on stress pattern to mark compound words: Here's a really easy pattern that seems natural. For multisyllabic words (undisirregardless of...
Forgot to mention one final thing on stress/tone. Some morphemes (like "be") are intrinsically compounding, so they could vary for the standard tone profile:...
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... Nor have I. I like to imagine the same thing. I think Ceqli is positioned pretty well to claim as much culture-neutrality as is possible. -- Rex F. May...
I've thought about this: Add three vowels to Ceqli, all expressed by digraphs: ae - as in English cAt oe - as in French bOEUf ue - as in German UEber I just...
... For representing some of the more common vowel sounds foreign to Ceqli, okay (like ZH etc. for a common consonant that is foreign). But not for native...
... Yes, I have to fight my impulse to dick around with the phonology. I'm still hung up on letter names, tho, in a search for reduncancy. Suppose we went...
... I'm ... Suppose we ... --SNIP-- I had thought about patterns like that too, for my own languages. But why do we need redundancy (by which you're referring...
... Agree. And the zayn thing would work there, too. ... I'm agreed. Now, I think the best thing is to go with the original (I think) set of names in Cuy....
... (I ... or default ... them ga buy, ga ... that's needed, ... Great! The only times it's really important to distinguish uppercase and lowercase is in...
I suggest a short word to mean 'an average amount of'. tawil = tall potawil = short vertawil = neither particularly short nor tall Alternatively, "tawil" could...
... As we've reserved 'he' for such things, the basic names will be l - he luy ... he muy he nuy he ruy he quy he yuy he wuy and the vowels just he a he e he i...
... Sure. In English we awkwardly say "of average height/size/length. I presume you derive 'ver' from 'average'. Indeed, if a Ceqli word exists meaning...
... I like the first system better, tho this is intriguing. The root will be the positive quality, the po- form the opposite, and the ver- form the ...
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