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on 4/29/02 9:25 PM, And Rosta at a-rosta@hidden.email wrote: > True. I think that feature of Ceqli is not a good one; it gets in the > way of saying "Man bites dog" efficiently. So I'd prefer a different > strategy for compounding, such as having a 'hyphen word' (like Lojban > zei) or inserting a homorganic nasal before an initial strong (so > da + da becomes danda) or suchlike. JCB and others reacted to my original proposal with horror, saying that 'sa' was unZipfean or something. And if I understand Zipfeanism at all, I'm sure that having a compound longer than its constituent parts would be unZipfean. I've considered making 'sa' optional, and counting on spaces and juncture to distinguish to blufawl from to blu fawl. My initian impetus, of course, was to get away from those horrible Loglan allomorphs. -- >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/