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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Rex May" <rmay@m...> wrote:
>
> > Intersentence connectives will of course be:
> >
> > hakay hava hafi haseya
> >
> > And I think we want to encourage the use of "ha" while not
> requiring
> > it. Now, can we say that compounds of "ha" with morphemes other
> than
> > connectives can express things like 'then' ("hafu"?)
>
> Before I go too far with this, what do we prefer as sentence
> connector (to correspond with Loglan 'i') "ha" or "he". Just
struck
> me that "he" seems a little more of a neutral sounding transition
> thing, like uh, er, and the funny sounds made between French
> sentences.
I imagine the sentence connector being used should be something that
one could drag out as one thinks of what to say next. "He" seems to
demand being said abruptly.