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On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:20:47PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > Hm. Sure. Now, we really need to decide what to do about this -r ending. > If we use -r to convert a smalvor into a preya, then all words of the form > CV(V)r are going to look like converted smalvor. Is that okay? If it is, > then we have to be careful not to make a CV(V)r that we _need_ for that > purpose. Or should we restrict CV(V)r to derivations of CV(V)'s? This is why I originally suggested -q instead of -r for this. I think that we may end up using the Lojban method of simply adding whatever consonant is available. > > Though I do like "ble" for this. It's more distinguishable from another > > very common suffix, "gan". > > I do, too. So shall we replace kan with ble both as a word and a suffix? Considering that the word *is* the suffix, as part of how Ceqli's compounds work, yes. > Right again. We could have 'tal' from Dutch, Cantonese goq, meaning speak, > or truncated English 'spi'. I'm inclined to spi, myself. You? "spi" is fine. Heck, it's already been used for that in another conlang - it's the "spi" in "guaspi". -- Rob Speer