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Re: [ceqli] Re: Connectives



on 2/27/04 6:42 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote:

> --- 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.
> 
Yes, not least to keep it from turning into "hey".   So, approximating
Loglan again, I propose "hi," which isn't being used right now.
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