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RE: [ceqli] impressionable



> From: ceqli@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ceqli@yahoogroups.com] On 

> The discussions going on at the Demos group
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/demos-ial-project/

Thanks for the plug. Maybe we can get a few more members to join us.


> is leading impressionable me to think about some reworking of Tceqli.
> In particular:
> 
> Return to the Loglan idea of grammatical particles that have a
> special shape.  This would be CV, and would yield up 65 possible
> grammar words.  Articles, tense and aspect markers, punctuation,
> things like that.
> 
> Allow any number of tcwaba at the beginning of a morph, and allow
> schwa-buffering to make it pronounceable for just about
> everybody.  This would enable word borrowing like
> ktcpe from ketchup (an extreme example) to be pronounced
> kuh-chuh-PEH or kuh-tuh-shuh-PE.

This is an idea that Vorlin has as well.  Though I never saw any
clusters like the one in your example above.


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