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Re: [Latejami] General comment re endings

In other words, not all parts of speech end with a simple vowel. And yet all the basic parts of speech do. Whether or not the rest of the POSes can conform to a comparably easy mneumonic, I don't know (and don't much care). I'm just glad that Latejami has made very good use of its vowel allocations (at least in my book).
 
Geoff

 
On 23/12/05, MorphemeAddict@hidden.email <MorphemeAddict@hidden.email > wrote:
In a message dated 12/21/2005 7:53:57 PM Central Standard Time, geoff.hacker@hidden.email writes:


Why, what other parts of speech are there in Latejami that do not require one of these five word endings? All the test sentences I have seen, or can think of, use only those endings for each of their words.


The initial email introduction to Latejami was here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Latejami/message/232

It provides Latejami translations of all the sentences in the first seven lessons.  It doesn't list the endings for the parts of speech, but has the following line:

POS ::= part-of-speech marker ::= a, e, aw, yu, etc

Latejami also has two new part-of-speech (POS) suffixes, which don't seem to be mentioned per se in the email, but they are used in the examples, specifically "tesye" 'and' (conjunction) and "tamu" 'maybe' (disjunct).  "Ximyu" 'of' illustrates the new open-adjective suffix.
I don't know the ending for open pwm.

So, Geoff, the other POS that aren't included in your list are:  open noun, open adjective, pwm, open pwm, vocative, imperative, and conjunction.

Also, since that message already contains translations of all the sentences of the lessons, I am discontinuing posting my own translations.  Some of the words in the message are slightly different though, e.g., "twizigo" 'black' became "kunzigo".  For the most part, though, they look the same.

stevo

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