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On 5/28/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > on 5/27/05 10:19 AM, Jim Henry at jimhenry1973@hidden.email wrote: > > Having both "byen" and "bien" ocur would probably be a bad idea; > > they don't contrast strongly enough. Having "ie" in some > > words and "ye" in others might be similarly confusing. > > Maybe you should forbid any sequence of two vowels that could > > be easily confused with a permitted diphthong. > > So since you allow "wa" there could be no words with "ua", > > etc. > > Yes, except for the stress rules again. bwa is pronounced BWA, and bua > pronounce BU-a. But what if you had a final or medial consonant? buan / bwan tuali / twali etc. > >> One more consideration. Ceqli makes many opposites by reversal, which > >> consists of keeping the cwaba initial group, and then reversing the order of > >> the following faloba: > > It's similar to the way Solresol formed its opposites, > > but here you don't have the Solresol problem of changing > > the classifier morpheme. You might have potential problems > > of collision between words, however, unless you're very careful > > and/or forbid users of the language to form their own ad-hoc > > opposites in this way - which implies there should be another > > (probably less terse) way to form opposite terms ad-hoc. > > > I see no reason not to allow adhocs, in that good ones will survive and > awkward ones won't. And the non-terse way is with the prefix po - pobon = > bad. OK, but in that case you need to make sure that no two words in the base lexicon could be changed into each other by this faloba-reversal antonymy -- even in cases where you don't think antonymy would make sense. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm