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overLoglanized? (was: Any?)



--- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
> I'm here.  I think we've overLoglanized Ceqli.  What 
> about everybody else?

I guess so. I appreciate the rigor of the loglan approach, 
but I have a hard time mentally working with the x1 blah 
blah x2 blah x3 format. I guess I would prefer a system 
that was unambiguous about the actor and (where 
appropriate) the focus, but which left all the other 
details to be handled by prepositional phrases. It just 
seems simpler.

I have minor quibbles with some of the word choices, 
because different words end up too close together. One 
example is 'bel' and 'beli'. I fear that trailing vowels 
are not enough to distinguish a word, because so many 
languages don't use them that way.

I still appreciate the aims of cengli, and find it to be 
an interesting effort. But I'm currently spending my 
linguistic time on my own project, which is a blend of 
Glosa syntax, Romance vocabulary, and EarthMinimal 
minimalism (500 roots).

Kevin