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Rex: > Well, what I mean is that I want it to have the potential to be as > unambiguous as Loglan. Preciseness when necessary. I had had the impression that Txeqli had downgraded the importance of precision that Loglan sets such store by. However, if precision (i.e. lack of logical and syntactic ambiguity) is a desideratum -- as I think it should be (for that is the only reason to prefer a conlang to English) -- then I know from experience that the most practical way to proceed is to start with the precise structures and then think of extra devices that can buy concision at the price of loss of precision, rather than vice versa. Unfortunately, the precision can be bought only at the price of eschewing natlang models. I can expatiate on this more if necessary, but will only note at this point that "the potential to be as unambiguous as Loglan" is not something that can be bolted on once the bones of the language are already in place; it must be the bones on which the rest of the language is built. --And.