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on 3/6/02 12:36 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> >> So far, then, we've nailed down the following: >> >> 1. /tS/ is represented by c, never by tx. >> >> 2. Vowels never become semivowels. Y and W are used instead. >> >> 3. Stress is always on the first syllable. >> >> 4. Compounds are always head-last. Xipam, dadom, blufawl, etc. > > Looks good. > >> Now I want to go into grammar big time. > > I was thinking last night about the neatness of the Japanese and > Hokkien systems of demonstrative pronouns and such, and I have a > proposal. I'll just use made up sounds, without worrying too much > about whether they are available or not. > > The basic idea is to have four categories of compounds. Each compound > would start with one of four modifiers: > > ci - near the speaker > so - near the person being spoken to > tu - distant from both (not always applicable) Let's add a fourth one meaning 'that just mentioned'. -- >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/