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on 2/27/02 9:50 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> >> I forgot to say, I'm willing to abandon bdomen for beli, but of course kofi >> doesn't fit the phonology. > > Took me a while to understand this point, and the reason for it. I'm > beginning to adapt, but it feels very strange--reasonable, but not intuitive. Yes. Self-segregating morphology was originally a Loglan idea, and was initially effectuated by allowing a limited number of word shapes, mainly CVCCV, CCVCV and CV(V). Ceqli might not exist if my recommendation to change those rules to the Ceqli system had been considered and adopted. Interestingly, Mandarin seems to have SSM itself, accidentally, as a by-product of the fact that virtually all morphemes are monosyllablic (morphemes, not words, tho I realize that gets a little fuzzy sometimes in Mandarin), tho I suppose it's possible to comfuse jin yi with ji ni. -- >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 >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/