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Re: [engelang] reformulating the core grammar

I found it helpful when I discovered that this ."co re g rammer" was, in fact only a phoneme strin generator, barely anuy connection with syntax at al (hence the lack of quantifiers, for example). So, VkV is joust a string of phonemes, not arguments to predicates or functions. This confusion of levels seems to lie at the heart oof ,much of should be a fairly simple grammar.
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On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@hidden.email> wrote:

 

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:52 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> Oh and I forgot to ask about something else. If "y" is the schwa used to
> break up consonant clusters, then what about the interjections that used
> to be yV? Are they gone?

"y" is not schwa, which is never written.
Oo
"y" is [j] (and I think Mike proposed it could also be [y] in lujvo)
We only defined a few interjections with w-, but I mentioned that I
would probably like to add some with y- too.

> Also, could you show me a sensible example of something like "wake"?

The desinences of interjections are not variables, so "wake" is just
an as yet undefined interjection.

co ma'a xrxe