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on 4/30/02 1:30 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > If you're suggesting this just as a convention, and that single > morphemes for 'father' and 'mother' would be nice to have, that sounds > good. If you're suggesting it as a general convention that could be > applied to many different words, it's ugly. Word endings should not > affect anything. Yes. A convention. Doesn't mean anything, just like the t's in the tVV's don't mean anything. A mnemonic. > > It's probably useful to have single morphemes for "mother" and "father". > Lojban does. In fact, it has "mother", "father", "parent", "brother", > "sister", "sibling" as all different words. So the -i and -o convention > could be useful for creating these morphemes, but should not actually be > a rule of the language. > > But why in the world have separate morphemes for "male dog" and "female > dog"? Good question. Probably a bad idea. Restrict it to kinship and human category words. pam, pami, pamo partent, mother father frer, -i -o sibling, etc. fil - child (of) offspring zin - cousin And other kinship terms to be formed as compounds. pamfrero uncle frerfili niece pampami grandmother etc. OK? -- >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/