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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > > > > What I'd really like to see is for all the non-verbs to be CV words, and > > all the verbs to be something else. I don't know if this is possible. > > There would probably have to be exceptions. > > Well, that would be 13 consonants x 5 vowels, or only 65 grammar words, > unless we selected one CV which means that the following morpheme is a > grammar word, then it wd be unlimited. Maybe 64 wd be adequate for the most > common. You could expand that to include C+diphthong and C+triphthong, if necessary. If you don't create a lot of vocabulary before the syntax is set, you should be able to see whether 65 will be enough, or not. -- 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