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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > Mike convince me that 'ga' shouldn't be used for 'very,' so I've taken 'tre' > for that. Now. For the word 'many, much', I've been using 'gasi.' 'Si' > means number, amount. So we have > gasi pani a lot of water > pisi pan a little bread > gosi pe many people > pisi hon a few books > Any contradiction there? Not as long as "gosi pe" is a typo for "gasi pe". However, not having morphemes for "many/much" and "few/little" means that we can't create neat Mandarin-style compounds for "majority" (<duo1shu4> = many-number) and "minority" (<shao3shu4> = few-number). (I'm not fond of "gasisi" and "pisisi".) There will undoubtedly be many other compounds that we'd like to form with those two words (think of all the English words with "multi-" and "poly-"), and I really feel that they "deserve" to be morphemes. How about "pali" or "poli", from "poly-"? Or, "dwo" from Mandarin? For the other, "kam" from Hindustani /k@m/ "little"/"less" might work. As far as that goes, English "meni" and "fyu" would both work. -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net ____________________________________________________________ "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, however, there is." -- Anonymous