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on 3/3/02 3:08 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > But the reason these remain unpalatable to me is that "blufaul" means > "bluebird", and has the modifier preceding the head, as specified, but > "pamzo" means "parentmale", "pexi" means "personfemale", and "frazo" > means "siblingmale". They are all backwards. Why do only sex morphemes > follow the head? > > blue bird blu faul > female bird faul xi > > Or, is it only in compounds? > > white dog byel kan > female dog xi kan > bitch kanxi > > Sorry, but it still doesn't make sense to me. It seems very early in > the game to be introducing irregularities into the morphology. That > should be saved for the second generation of native speakers. You have just about broken my resistance down. I think my insistence on pexi, pezo, is nothing more than Occident-centrism. Assuming my capitulation, would there be any better -forms- for either zo or xi to take in a prefix position than their current ones? -- >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/