I have changed the terminative (pausative) and resumptive aspect modifiers from "da"/"zu" and "ko" to "fu" (exit) and "fru" (enter), respectively. (Both "da"...
Hi stevo, I've two and a half questions: How do you say "hi" or "hello" in Latejami/Saweli? Is the POS marker for conjunctions a productive derivational...
In a message dated 6/8/2008 05:49:58 AM Central Daylight Time, ... The closest that I know of is using the vocative suffix with the generic root: tomwe/zol. ...
In a message dated 6/8/2008 05:49:58 AM Central Daylight Time, ... They are productive in Saweli. Whether they are in Latejami, I'm not so sure, but I would...
... I thought maybe something like "P is added to F". And maybe "citesa" could mean something like "P is conditioned by A [or F?]"? Maybe "kavasye" would make...
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Jun 9, 2008 2:50 pm
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In a message dated 6/9/2008 09:50:46 AM Central Daylight Time, ... How would this be different from the suffix "ent"/"te" (add root to P; A/P-d state)? stevo ...
In a message dated 6/9/2008 09:50:46 AM Central Daylight Time, ... I hadn't noticed this discrepancy before between the reference grammar and the dictionary. ...
In a message dated 6/9/2008 09:50:46 AM Central Daylight Time, ... You can, of course, make the process productive in your own conlang. It doesn't need to...
... The root describes the relation instead of being part of it? I don't know. ... Yes. But for me it does depend on if I'm able to wrap my head around its ...
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Jun 11, 2008 8:58 pm
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</HTML> In a message dated 6/11/2008 15:58:43 PM Central Daylight Time, ... How is Raikudu different from Latejami/Saweli? stevo </HTML>...
... Well, "Raikudu" could refer to a particular conlang with a phonology and everything, or to the system of grammar and semantics I reuse throughout many ...
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Jun 12, 2008 2:49 pm
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... Something I meant to mention is the honorific/pejorative system. At first I didn't have it at all. But then I had a dream, which content I don't remember, ...
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In a message dated 6/12/2008 10:02:13 AM Central Daylight Time, ... I wish you the best of luck and success. stevo </HTML>...
My proposal concerns expressing aspects of verbs without expressing tense. Esperanto verbs can be in three tenses (past, present, future), a conditional, a...
Hi Steve! I like your approach. "-es" even really looks available to me, even though it has been used for tablewords like "kies". The use of -int-, -ant- and...
In a message dated 2009-01-29 07:49:49 Eastern Standard Time, ... Stefo! Privet! Zol! ... This doesn't really give enough context to see how the other,...
I've been slowly adding new words to the lexicon and changing some of the old ones as I find a need for them. I should probably publish a list here of the ...
Saweli has no prefixes. A word starts with its classifier, and nothing can precede the classifier. Thus all the morphology involves suffixes and endings. ...
I recently changed from MicroSoft Office (Word and Excel) to OpenOffice (Writer and Calc). In Excel I was able to replace a formula with its value. Does...
Here is the beginning of the changes to the lexicon since May 30, 2008, when I posted the whole lexicon on this list, beginning with message number 232. Words...
Here is the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) primitives and their equivalents in Saweli. I = yaras. you = yasas (singular). people = resu. someone/person =...
... Why don't you use "x" when the dynamics is unchanged static and "z" when it's unchanged dynamic? Using "v" seems a bit like you are refusing redundancy...
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