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On 12/8/05, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Jim Henry wrote: > > Maybe these problems are evidence you should > > reconsider the wholen notion of reversing > > the faloba phonemes for oppositeness. > > It's nifty, but it seems it would make .... > > Or keep the reversal-pairs for a few of > > the most frequent words, but use an > > oppositeness affix for most others, > > and make it clear that reversal-oppositeness > > is not a productive process > I quite agree. I'm just in the process of looking at the vocabulary > as it is, and seeing if some more reversals are indeed possible and > desirable. I think I'm going too far with fooling with 'ten,' > actually, it's just too handy a word. As far as I can tell you haven't really documented the reversal process (or the use of "po-") much on the Ceqli grammar pages yet. When you get around to it, you might say something like this: "Some frequently occurring words for opposite qualities are related to each other by reversing the order of the faloba phonemes (leaving the cuaba consonants as they are) .........give examples.......... This process is not productive, however; these pairs are made this way to give a mnemonic relationship to some of the most common opposite terms without adding an extra syllable. The normal way to form an opposite is with the affix "po". ......... .....more explanation and examples with po....... BTW -- this is from a while ago, but I don't recall seeing it mentioned in the group archives. Apologies if you've already seen it. http://blog.ravenblack.net/cgi-bin/comment.pl?stamp=1045202638 -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm ...Mind the gmail Reply-to: field