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on 4/30/02 11:58 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:13:09PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> on 4/30/02 2:43 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: >> >>> selbri (predicate relation) -> bepreja >> In order to make a compound, I think 'be' first has to become a preja with >> -r 'berpreja' > > Okay, you're right, it should be a compound because we'll be considering > it as a single word. There's nothing actually wrong with 'bepreja', > which is just 'be preja' written without the space - it's just not a > compound. I see. I've thought about whether it makes any difference. I suppose you might get a 'ber' embedded inside a larger compound sometimes. 'paniberdan' Water container? > > Incidentally - I find this quite interesting - spaces are entirely > redundant in Ceqli. Words begin with a glottal stop/pause or a > consonant, no matter what. Accents are redundant in the same way. Not > that there's anything wrong with this redundancy - it should aid > comprehension. Well, good. I've been afraid of just the opposite ? not enough redundancy. -- >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/