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On 6/13/05, John F. Schilke, MD <jfs.md@hidden.email> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rex May - Baloo" > > I'm thinking about the name problem. Loglan and Lojban have an awkward > way > > of doing names, which is why I selected the 'ti' to mark names. Now, I'm > > thinking of having a bound morpheme that mark names of people or things. > It > > needs to be short. Perhaps ye /Ze/. Or fe. Or se. Se is now available > Of these choices, I'd like (on esthetic grounds) either ye or se. The Any of the ones with voiced fricative + /e/ sound OK to me. But I'm wondering how much you've considered using prefix vs. suffix for this? I use several different name suffixes for my own conlang gjax-zym-byn - "ram" for personal names, "kxam" for foreign language titles, "sqam" for family names, /wam/ for place names... But, I've found that as suffixes they are occasionally inconvenient; it might be better to use a prefix or prepositive particle to indicate that a foreign name that might not fit ceqli morphophonology is about to follow, and that even if it sounds like a ceqli word it isn't one --- rather than a suffix that says that _what you've just heard_ is a proper name. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm