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on 4/7/02 9:47 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:30:44PM -0600, 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. > > Including CVV could help... but what do you mean by CVV? Is this CVW (a > lot of words, but would take away a _lot_ of existing words) or maybe > CV(y|w)? I'd be inclined to either stick with CV, or go with C(S/V)(CS/V), where 'S' is a semivowel, w or y. Yep, lose a lot of words that way. On the other hand, unlike Logzhblan, we continue to have heaps of one-syllable content words. My favorites, xi and zo, have to go anyway. I propose zel for xi, from mademoiSELLE. -- >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/