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on 4/25/02 8:27 AM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 07:14:12AM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> Well, me too. Numbers are a case in point. and other math terms, for that >> matter. Oh, yes. I like the idea of pifu, meaning 'right away', but pi is >> a predicate and fu is a pinvor. > > fu would most likely have a predicate equivalent. "fuq" to follow the > pattern, though in Lojban things like that went the other way - words > like "balvi" (future) were created first, and from there came the cmavo > "ba" (future tense). > > As for "right away", that's what "zi" is for in Lojban. I assume those > words would get imported into Ceqli. Yes, but it's irritating to have a whole new word, when 'pifu's meaning is so obvious. What do you think of And's comments? -- >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/