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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:15:05PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > on 6/10/02 3:33 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > > > 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. > And you may have been very right. I was concerned that we'd lose a lot of > mandarin loan words, but -r loses us a lot of words from everywhere else. > Using endings like -rl or -lm would lead to very difficult pronunciation for > some people. How about -ry? It adds a syllable, but being a schwa, a > very short one. The expense of a syllable would be enough to cause people to avoid using extremely useful affixes like "bery". This happened to Lojban's "fi'o" (Ceqli "ho"). Considering that it will already be the case that some pinvor (smalvor?) will have affix versions and others won't, it hardly seems any more inconsistent to vary the consonant as necessary. This is a bit of a reversal from my original position. But if there's going to be a single consonant that is always attached, it might as well be q. -- Rob Speer