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Re: [ceqli] Re: Connectives



on 2/25/04 9:39 PM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote:

> on 2/25/04 9:09 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote:
> 
>> --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
>>> on 2/25/04 10:31 AM, HandyDad at lsulky@r... wrote:
>>> 
>>>> --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...>
>> 
>> --SNIP--
>> 
>>> Agree again, sort of.  Here's what we need, I think.  A set of
>> Loglanesque
>>> connectives that can do all of the Loglan things, but, to keep both
>> you and
>>> me happy, a more _un_obvious derivation.
>>> 
>>> Loglan I has a set of 56 variations of the connectives,
>> combinations of them
>>> with fore-no's and after-no's
>>> 
>>> Let's say that the sign of the connective in ceqli is "s",  We then
>> have,
>>> for redundancy, different vowel/weak combos:
>>> 
>>> snan  and  (ANd)
>>> sor  and/or (OR)
>>> snil  if and only if (oNLY)
>>> sweq  wether or not (WEther or not)  ["q" just to increase
>> redundancy]
>>> 
>>> Then, what in Loglan would be a prefixed 'no' becomes a pseudo-
>> suffix "aw",
>>> and what would be the suffixed 'noi' becomes the pseudo-suffix "oy"
>>> 
>>> 'noa,' then, is "soraw", and 'anoi' is "soroy"
>>> 
>>> So, they can be taken apart if we want to, but we don't have to.
>> Reaction?
>>> 
>> 
>> Okay. The series approach is going to be easier to maintain than
>> inventing a brand new word for every logical connective. But I liked
>> the k-series better. 'And' is going to be a very common connective,
>> and "snan" is...um...a bit rough on the tongue.
> 
> K series better?  No problem (I think I do too):
> 
> Kay
> Kaw
> Kli
> Kwe
> 
> Suffixes can be "ru" for front no and "roy" for back no
> 
> noa is "Kawru" and anoi "Kawroy"
> 
> Or, we can follow Loglan more closely and just use a combining form:
> 
> "byu"
> 
> and have "byukaw" and "kawbyu"

Or, not have a combining form and have

bukaw and kawbu

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