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Is the Loglan system of po, pu, and zo optimal, or is there a better way? I quote here from: http://www.loglan.org/Loglan1/chap4.html#sec4.6 4.13 Event Descriptions with lepo There is one variety of specified description that deserves and gets special treatment in Loglan. This is the specified abstract description formed with a compound operator made by joining any descriptive operator to po, pu or zo. The most widely used form of this construction is called event description and is made with the compound operator lepo (typically pronounced [leh-poh] with level stress), a word that may always be translated 'the event, state or condition of...'. Thus the unspecified description lepo sucmi means 'the particular event of swimming which I have in mind', or simply 'the swim'. Similarly, lepo prano means 'the run', and lepo mrenu means 'the manhood (of some particular person)'. Obviously we shall sometimes want to specify such predicates as richly as we can. For we shall often want to anticipate such questions as: Whose manhood? Who ran? And where did he run? Me talking now. I like ke, because it is very handy and recalls the various Romance language que's. The way we're using ke seems to be the way Loglan uses lepo. Should we look into aping the Loglan system here? -- >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/