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On Mar 19, 2006, at 8:54 AM, sasxsek@hidden.email wrote:
how about dumsilno think-strong, for 'intelligent'?dumsonli would mean unintelligent.or burusilno, mind-strong?Actually, I suppose a lot of compounds are possible for the general meaning. breynsilno (brain-strong) is another. With actual use, they'd probably pick up connotations or subtle differences. I want Tceqli to be loglanlike insofar as it's possible to make a lot of nonce- compounds of this sort, and avoid making new roots when not needed.I would tend to use something more like "mind-power" for "intelligence",so you could say "mind-powerful" for "intelligent".
As Tceqli stands, 'ca' means 'quality of', so power or strenght would be silnoca, and then intelligence would be dumsilnoca, burusilnoca.
djin burusilno tcem gayr. djin sa burusilnoca ga tcem gayr sa beo.The second is okay, but it seems kind of unTceqli. I'm inclined towards thinking that abstractions will tend to be avoided in favor of more Chinesey-Englishy straightforwardness.
Now I'm trying to find a good word for 'easy', reversible to 'difficult.'
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