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Re: [Ladekwa] Unhappy with Ladekwa as is



MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote:
> 
> Does this mean there would be no syllables with vowels "ea" or "oa"?
> 

Yes.  (I never liked them anyway :-)

> 
> > It turns out that about two-thirds of all modifiers and two-thirds of
> > all classifiers contain a semi-vowel, and the net result is lots of
> > tongue-twisting phrases and sentences. 
> 
> I wonder if some judicious re-arranging of the current classifiers/modifiers 
> would help solve this.  You could put the more difficult or slightly longer 
> syllables on the least used classifiers.
> 

That's exactly what I did when I created the current morphemes.  The
only exceptions are words that are used frequently, such as "si", "to",
"sa", etc, even though their classifiers appear in only a few words.


Regards,

Rick Morneau
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram