cooool. :-) don't know why, but i tried to prono it like klingon first. :-D (becasue of "qu'uslus" - "qu'uSluS") the stress is on the penultimate sillable,...
In a message dated 6/3/2007 7:01:00 AM Central Daylight Time, ... That works. I haven't settled on a specific stress yet. There are at least four different...
I thought the apostrophe was a consonant "like any other", a glotal stop? Hm... I'm a little confused. Maybe with some more example sentences I might...
In a message dated 6/4/2007 7:06:40 AM Central Daylight Time, ... What is confusing you? I realized after I sent it that I should have included some examples. ...
In a message dated 6/4/2007 7:06:40 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Well, it is a glottal stop, but it also tends to mark modifications (usually an opposite) of...
Yen wufEnkab qu'Uslus rEsu zag yen vAxeb es suglandAsu ye'Ad yo'Abanzumeb Uglas. Stressed syllables (according to the rules in a previous post) have the ...
Apostrophes occur in one other place besides in a classifier, and that is in a modifier derived from a classifier by adding "y" after the initial consonant of...
I've tried twice to upload the latest version of the dictionary, both times without success. I had no trouble uploading the classifier list, though, so I know...
An odd byproduct of the ordering of classifiers is that nearly all sentences begin with t, v, w, x, or y, with y the most common, at least in the lesson ...
First, I cannot quite read Saweli without knowing where the prefixes and suffixes begin and what they mean. For example, if you use a word like "malsanulejo",...
That sounds interesting, could you please give examples? - word with classifier - word with classifier with similar meaning - word with classifier with...
Hi Stevo, OK, this is better... Just for the case of the rhinoceros, this is the depth of explanation I need to understand: ga - classifier "external animal...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 7:42:46 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Saweli has no prefixes. All Latejami prefixes become secondary endings (after the primary...
So this is a very detailed answer. Thank you Stevo. I'm going to reread it.... How do you know that "ye'ad" is not referring to "yen", but to "vaxeb", by the...
Awesome! Is it a coincidence that "yen" resembles Esperanto "jen"? :-) Questions: "b" means that there are two arguments. I wonder what happens if you use open...
Stevo, so if I understand it right, this is the word-level grammar: word = cl + mod + (n + suffix) + ending + secondary ending (mod = semantic modifier) ...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:38:54 AM Central Daylight Time, ... In other words, a noun is definite unless it has a secondary ending, for example, generic...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:04:20 AM Central Daylight Time, ... "kol" is an artefact of the sort order I use (vowels are more important than the liquid...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 7:46:33 AM Central Daylight Time, ... There are no "classifiers with similar meaning". From Appendix C of "Lexical Semantics": "A...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:38:54 AM Central Daylight Time, ... I believe "ye'ad" is referring to the phrase "yen vaxeb", not to a single part of it. stevo...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:48:15 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Totally. I hadn't noticed it. There's not much semantic similarity between the two, but they...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:21:43 AM Central Daylight Time, ... I forgot part of the entry. It should be: wufenkab - belong to cl. "wu" [P/F-s] = other...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:38:54 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Words with classifiers "su"/"su'a" designate attributes, i.e., qualities. Therefore the basic...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:48:15 AM Central Daylight Time, ... There are five verb endings: p b f v m. They indicate the number of arguments in the...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:48:15 AM Central Daylight Time, ... The endings for change of argument structure are composed of the following elements. s/d...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 9:11:20 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Exactly right. ... "Quantor"? What's that? ... The classifiers are ordered according to the...
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