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on 2/23/02 12:25 PM, John Schilke at doc@hidden.email wrote: > Greetings! > > New to the List, I have inevitable questions. The overall picture of Txeqli > (or Ceqli, if you are as old as I) is fascinating, and very attractive. > Congratulations to Rex! Carry on! > > I realize that things are in flux, so these are suggestions. In looking at > both Rex's and Alex's vocabularies, I don't find > god (or God), god - dio pron. DEE-oh > sun (though star, planet, and moon are there), sun - sun > week (though day, night, and year are there), I don't think we need a morpheme for it. I think txildey will do (sevenday) > minute and second (though hour is there), I don't have either. Open to suggestions. > half, and half can be pwefay (point five) or hansladu (one slash two) or just sladu (slash two with the default 'one' unnecessary to include. > words for the measures (metre, gram, kilo, &c), Good question. We need to have the base words and the prefixes, all fitting into Txeqli phonology. > a word to denote the decimal point, and pwe (from French 'point', more or less) > a word to denote the fraction bar. sla (from English 'slash', sort of) > > Also, how does one express the ordinals (2nd, 31st, &c)? With 'zem' hanzem, duzem, trizem, etc. From French ending as in 'troisieme', etc. > > It is good fun to see the great variety of origins for word choices, and I > think it fine. I'll suggest none; that is for Rex. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm