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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote:
> --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
> > Before we go any further, we all should look at the equivalent
> words in
> > Loglan at
> > http://www.loglan.org/Loglan1/index.html
>
> It was fun to look at that again. I bought my copy in 1975.
>
> Loglan has the name marker "la", the definite article "le", and the
> mass-predicate marker "lo". It marks salutation ("Joe!") by
omitting
> a marker.
>
> And then things get heavy. Ya got yer demonstratives "ti" and "ta",
> yer abstract descriptor markers "lopu", "lopo", and "lozo", and all
> kinds of stuff.
the "lopu", "lopo", etc are just compound terms - combinations
of "lo" + "pu", "lo" + "po", etc. So, you basically still just have
le & lo, plus a bunch of other words that you add in in order to
create more meanings. Then, there are some special mathematical words
like "loe", "leu", "lea", etc that wouldn't be used in common speech.
> I think, for a start, I could be happy with a small subset of
> articles to cover the broad cases and then see what linguistic
> evolution happens. Reserve the T-word forms, or at least a goodly
> number of them, for future use.
If you want to create a proper language, you should have it well
defined before you release it. Otherwise, one of two things would
happen:
1. you change it => people stop using the language
2. you leave the language how it is => you're left with a sub-par
language.
That is the fate of every language released into the world.
> --Krawn