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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:42:11PM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > Mike Wright makes this suggestion: > > "Seems like if you want to maintain the frer-frero-freri system, you > need something more like: > > jin - person (Sino-Japanese equiv. of Mandarin ren2) > jino - male person > jini - female person" > > He suggests this instead of xi-jo-su > reactions? I say forget frer-frero-freri. The big deal about Ceqli is how easy it is to make compound words, so why not do it that way with frer/frerjo/frerxi? Vowel-changing word endings are for Esperanto. -- Rob Speer