Re: [ceqli] diia - ceqli messages

On Jan 18, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Jim Henry wrote:

Alternatively, you could drop some of the fricative/affricate
contrasts. Dropping all affricates entirely might require
too extensive changes to the vocabulary, but maybe
making voiceless fricatives contrast with voiced affricates
would work. I.e.,

/s/ - /dz/
/S/ - /dZ/

but no /z/, /ts/, /Z/, or /tS/.
Or drop the affricates and have

/s/ - /z/
/S/ - /Z/

That would be an excellent strategy for an auxlang, and it ought to be tried.

OTOH,
it would make for more symmetry, as the affricate ts, and possible
other affricates — kx, ps, etc. — are represented with two letters.

Representing all the affricates with two letters
(as in Lojban) would also be an improvement,
and it wouldn't require reducing your phoneme
inventory so wouldn't require changing any
words (except in their orthography, of course).

And I think that's the way I'll go.

On another topic, have you given any more
thought to stabilizing the grammar [and orthography]
for a while and trying to write and post a fair amount
of stuff in Ceqli, to see how well it works? If you
were to stabilize the language, I might would
take some time to translate stuff into it -- right now
it seems kind of pointless, though.

I sure have, and when I do get around to it, it will largely be
because of your urging and assistance. go fala zi!

I look forward to that. You don't have to wait until
you're ready to stabilize the language to write more texts
in Ceqli, though.