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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > I can't stop thinking about this. You know, we're assuming that the > connectives have to be some kind of series that begins with the same letter. > Not so. It might actually be better to have more redundancy, without losing > terseness. After all, I objected early on to the lack of redundancy in > Esperanto pronouns. > > Let's speculate > > e kay (esperanto) > a va (persian 'and') > o fi (English backwards) > u seya (Spanish) > > so: > > noa xeva > anoi vaxe > > and then "ha" can correspond to Loglan 'i', but not be required. > > And the Loglanistas among us can complete the series. Someone said that > normal English 'or' (not both) is some kind of negative version of a > connective. Ah, here it is > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ceqli/message/1037 > > Rob Speer said it's 'onoi', hence, "fixe" > > I like these. They sound different from each other, and are for the most > part not a priori. Easier to learn. Kay is easy for us Esp guys. Va we > can remember as the -other- 'and', the Persian one, that includes 'or', and > its vowel reminds us of the Loglan equivalent. Fi no problem for > anglophones, and 'seya,' well, if you know any Spanish it's a subjunctive > form of 'be' which is part of their expression for 'whether or not'. And > it's the longest, so handy for the least-used connective. I'm inclined to > go with this set. > I'm glad I didn't have a chance to check in until you'd got to this point. I think this is the best, by far! More natural, more redundant. I thought some more about the 'modified modifiers' question, but won't have time until tomorrow night, probably, to discuss. Going to the Bare Naked Ladies concert downtown tonight with my son. ---Krawn