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Re: [txeqli] Alphabet

Title: Re: [txeqli] Alphabet
on 3/5/02 3:56 AM, Ray Bergmann at rayber@hidden.email wrote:

However, what's the problem with numbers being little words? Especially
with the wonderfully straightforward system of Lojban numbers? I must
say I like that better than Ceqli's European-style numbers.

Ray:>> What are the Lojban' numbers?

The original Loglan numbers were:

0   ni
1   ne
2   to
3   te
4   fo
5   fe
6   so
7   se
8   ho
9   he

I think -- 8 and 9 might have been vo and ve.

In any case, they're certainly elegant, but, alas, not nearly redundant enough.  Far too easy to confuse with each other.  That's why I went for zoi, han, du, tri, for, fay, ce, cil, gaw

And, as for them being little words, I see no reason why they should be considered more 'grammatical' than any other content word.  Reason is, of course, that Loglan drew a line in the sand and has three categories of words -- names, predicates, and little words.  So little words is a classification based on nothing but non-membership in the other two classes.

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