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on 4/5/02 12:10 PM, kevinbsmith at yahoogroups@hidden.email wrote: > --- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> I don't entirely agree. In all languages, context enables a >> lot of simplification. As I said before, ciq stu is short for >> Go ciq ke zi stu, but it could mean a lot of other things. >> Da pa ciq ke go stu, etc. But I want to be able to say Ciq stu. >> However, I want to be able to go context-free when necessary >> and expand the whole thing till it's no longer ambiguous. > > The danger of that is when the author _thinks_ a statement is > unambigous when it is not. When writing (or speaking), we have > the entire context in our mind. The reader (listener) does not > have that benefit, so it is easy to end up with "mi volu auxi". > That's certainly true. Now, the Ceqli rule would be that given a subject and an auxiliary, the following verb has the same subject as the auxiliary, that is: X vol Y = X vol ke X Y. That solves this little problem, at least. -- >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/