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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:13:47PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > I was thinking of using -r, as Loglan does. Actually, they wd occasionally, > I think be used as lone predicates. Thus: We come up with a pivor that > acts as instrumental preposition, say 'pyu' > Go ski pyu krayon. I write with a pencil. > We add -r, and 'pyur' means 'to use'. I think a lot of things can be done > back-asswards this way, making the case tag/prepsitions first, and deriving > predicates from them. Argh. So this comes out exactly like Lojban's modals, one thing I seriously want to get rid of. My idea would be to have "to use" be a single syllable, and add a single-syllable pivor before it to make it a preposition. -- Rob Speer