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On Jan 11, 2008 11:28 AM, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > dwa means must, and zol means should, ought to. It would help to give some examples in sentences of the distinction. > Ah, I see. Seym is 'same'. Well, to reverse that you have to do all the vowels, so 'different' > would be 'smye'. We also have 'ger' meaning 'other', which might be redundant with 'smye'. "all the vowels" meaning "all the faloba", right? At one point you were using the word "vowel" in a non-standard way, to include the nasal and liquid consonants as well as the semivowels and the phonetic vowels. We talked about that and you said you would start calling them "faloba", if I remember right. I originally thought the idea of reversing the order of the faloba to form opposites was rather spiffy, but on further thought I'm not so sure; I think it might should be restricted to being used only with some of the most frequent words, and not made a generally productive derivation method. Esperanto speakers can parse ad-hoc mal-words that they've never heard before on the fly, but it's not obvious to me that Ceqli speakers would be able to parse anagrammatic ad-hoc opposite terms on the fly, because this method of deriving words by anagrams is not found in natural language, unlike mutation and affixation. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry