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Re: Connectives



--- 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.