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Re: [engelang] Xorban experimental tense markers

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:27 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: 

Mike S., On 02/10/2012 18:34:

> Why has "d" been proposed when it seems plain & obvious to me that a
> predicate similar to "skicu" (with places rearranged) would suffice?

It's not plain and obvious to me that a predicate similar to "skicu" would suffice. However, in another message I've noted that a (dyadic) predicate similar to "co'e" would suffice.

If "d-" is comparable to "co'e voi" and "voi" is related to "le", and "le" has been defined by Jorge (correctly as far as I can tell) as "zo'e noi mi ke'a do skicu lo ka ce'u broda", then if I were taking a crack at defining "d-", then I would introduce slvlsk [< selvelski < se ve skicu] and say:

da Fa <=> la' Fa' slvlskaka'[ka'ake'e]

If you have something else in mind, that's fine.  But as a general rule, I do think we should be anchoring all operator proposals in terms of the most basic operators and any needed predicates.  (If you have already done that for "d-" then it's my fault for I missing it of course.)

 
I think the language should contain /h/, <h>, but I acknowledge both that we haven't reached any consensus on phonology, or really tried to yet, and that you intended the use of h- to signal that the forms are put forward for discussion as something the language might adopt (with probably different forms). It's in exactly that spirit that I responded.

--And.

I don't think it's going to happen, but if <h> is added to CX, then what I have currently as <h> can be easily replaced by thorn or theta or even eng, all of which will presumably display properly over at Google Groups.

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co ma'a mke

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