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on 4/21/02 8:10 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > 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. Actually, that's just how I was doing it early on. Then I decided to do it mandarin style and just let a sentence have two verbs, so to speak, like Go ploi spun kom komxo. I use spoon eat food. But that is really terribly imprecise. Say we pick ku. Go kom to komxo ku ploy te spun. Maybe allow it to be a prefix, as in 'kuploy' -- >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/