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Logically, "whether or not" does make up the fourth member of the quartet, but the Lojban experience is that it is almost never used, and hence is rather a waste of little-words. --And. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rex May - Baloo" <rmay@hidden.email> To: <ceqli@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [ceqli] connectives > Another thought: > > Loglan uses 4 vowels for the primary connectives: > > a e o u. > > i is used as a sort of vague connective. > > Anyhow, my first thought way back was to pretty much keep the Loglan system > but adapt it to ceqli phonology. So maybe, since ceqli has 4 basic > diphthongs, they can replace the vowels. Loglan and ceqli equivalents, > thus: > > e - and - kay > a - and/or - key > o - if and only if - kaw > u - whether or not - koy > > And i can be replace by ki. > > that would mean: > > noa > bukey > anoi > keybu > > -- > > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: > http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: > http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >