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Re: [Latejami] General comment re endings

In a message dated 12/20/2005 8:20:42 PM Central Standard Time, geoff.hacker@hidden.email writes:


I find it very elegant the way that you can always tell the part of speech of the word by the vowel ending on the word, similarly to Esperanto. Whereas, I find the allocation of vowel to part-of-speech more logical in Latejami:

a - verb
e - adverb/case tag
i - noun
o - adjective
u - disjunct

As opposed to the Esperanto:

a - adjective
e - adverb
i - verb infinitive
o - noun
u - verb imperative

Geoff


Why is one more logical than the other?  And what about all the other parts of speech in Latejami?  Or the other endings in Esperanto?  How do they fit in?

I've always felt that Esperanto's endings were not optimal, but I don't think Latejami does much better.

stevo