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on 4/17/02 4:51 AM, And Rosta at arosta@hidden.email wrote: > To some extent their frequency is a function of their length, with > monosyllabic > cmavo preferred to disyllabic. So frequency statistics for cmavo would not > be a wholly reliable guide to their relative utility. Another thing that struck me lately was the fact that you have Loglan words like djifoa, which are three syllables. They look shorter than they are, in effect, and somewhat defeat the purpose of the allomorph system. To make a combining allomorph, they convert forma into foa, and still have the same two syllables. The Ceqli equivalent might be dxoynform, only two syllables. -- >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/