Happy Canada Day! Steve emailed me this comment last Tuesday. Since I can only get to my regular email account when my teenagers accidentally leave our main...
Now I'll respond to Steve's analysis. First off, thank you, Steve. This is excellent. I've wrestled with these concepts but never clarified my thoughts so...
This may be a cleaner idea: For comparison, a single functional that means 'in comparison to', 'with respect to', 'than'. Let's say it's "wo". Then we use...
I'm toying with the idea of dropping "h" as a native Konya letter, or, alternatively, restricting it to the beginnings of functionals (like "w" and "y"). ...
... the ... final ... It would be a good idea at least to avoid it at the end of a verb or any root. Several ... sound ... in ... Japanese does have the sound,...
... or ... I can do that. ... Yes, it's kind of a cute sound, like you hear in "Fujiyama". I didn't know about the phonemic context. ... constructions ... ...
... Some Austronesian languages make such distinctions--their speakers would pronounce all of these vowel clusters as monosyllables--but I doubt it would work...
... pronunciations ... I take your meaning to be: "ae" and "ai" would not be sufficiently distinct from one another, nor would "ao" and "au". Yes? That's what...
As I review the prepositions more thoroughly, I'm struck by the relationship between prepositions and verbs. (Don't know why this would come as a surprise to...
... a ... Generally, there are two sources for prepositions (or equivalent structures): 1) They derive from adverbs or adjectives/nouns used as adverbs. This ...
I'm going to be posting a significant update to Konya in the next few days. I'll try to make the current version available as well, but in case I mess up, you...
Version 035 is on the website. Check the change history page for a list of significant changes. The Babel text uses some new words, plus a couple of changed...
... I see this as ambiguous - it could also easily mean "the way cats eat is unusual". Why not komyuna wi kota seyu xina On #28 and 29 -- the former uses "hu"...
Thanks so much for your input, Jim. Several of the things you mention I have addressed in the latest version, put up just this morning. I'll give you more ...
... Why not, indeed? It is as you recommend in the new version, except that old "wi" is now "we". ... (Now #29 & #30) Evidently I fixed this too. But I've just...
... Can we have a big picture or roadmap? How often do you plan on changing the language? What are the tasks you want to complete before you say that a ...
... I'm not sure what you mean. It might make sense to say that some European languages (maybe most) mark the vocative by tone and tempo of the sentence, with...
... <jimhenry1973@g...> ... most ... indicated in ... Quite so, you've said it much better than I did. ... recognize the ... most ... demanding ... What about...
... changing the ... that a ... The honest answer is "I don't know". At least, not yet. Right now Konya is in a high degree of flux, after having been ...
... from the mid-1970s -- it recommended pronouncing punctuation marks aloud, and I think it suggested various clicks and ejectives for them. [Clicks are...
... There's no substitute for using a language, for finding out what its gaps and weaknesses are. At the peak periods of intense work on gjax-zym-byn, I've...
... I'll see what I can come up with. I'll look at what Toki Pona does. (What's the deal with Canadians and IALs?!?) ... The preposition rework in Konya is a...
... Jim, every point and suggestion you made here makes very good sense. I'll review and revise the few planned steps I laid down in light of them. Thank you...
... Vocative: mama mi o, toki. Hi, Mom. jan Lawi o toki! Talk, Larry! o toki! Talk! toki a! Hello! (emphatic) ... I.e., an emphatic particle or suffix, like...
... does. ... Proposal: Use "ya" as a vocative marker when it does not follow a consonant. When it does follow a consonant, it is a name marker. Use "yo" as an...
... I think I would slightly prefer a vocative particle distinct from the name marker suffix, but this is good. ... I think "preceding" and "following" are...
... jimhenry1973@g...> ... I'm just so low on monosyllabic functionals, that's why I'm being stingy. Also, "ya" recalls the "ya" name suffix, and it's names...
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