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> I also think we may need different levels of connecting > hyphens...Some stickier or with broader scope than others. Or > again, "sa" to say 'let's pause a moment and gather everything up'. > Did we ever decide whether "sa" wraps up everything including all > preceding "sa" clauses, or just everything since the previous "sa" in > the sentence? Yes. I'm afraid I keep coming back to some Loglanish solution. Ceqli was first conceived as a Loglan reform, anyway. Let's think broadly: My first notion was to adopt all the Loglan connectives as is but to have he, ha, etc. in place of e, a, to fit the ceqli phonology. We really can't do that, as we have two excellent words, ho and hu, that I'd hate to interfere with. My second thought was to replace e, a, etc. with a series of diphthongs, which is still sort of what's going on.... A weird thought. We could ressurrect your j/dj contrast, setting j to /Z/, and have the series ja je ji jo ju for connectives! Let's think this through calmly... We would have a slight weirdness in that c would be the unvoiced equivalent of dj. We really don't want to change that c. It's been messed with all too much already. connectives would then be: Loglan Ceqli a ja e je i ji o jo u ju noa buja anoi jabu Another possibility would be to have a "hla" series, where the hl is essentially an unvoiced "l". > > Somewhat related topic: Have we ever decided whether multiple > modifiers on a headword all apply to the headword, or would the first > modifier modify the second modifier, and so on? Hm. Here I think we need to follow the Loglan lead, and go thru Pretty little girls school to find out what we need to modify that order when necessary. In other words, the second way. -- 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