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Re: [engelang] Xorban: co'e, co'o & co'u


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:26 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email> wrote: 

One of the obvious problems with Lojban is a superfluity of cmavo that clutter the sentence but add little of substance to the whole.  Do we really want to start the same pattern for Xorban?

No, we don't want that.  Do you think these are all superfluous?

co'e = doi ...
co'o = topic marker ... (no exact equivalent in L)
co'u = mu'o mi'e ...

We have been covering all three with "co" up until now.  I think that "co'u" would probably be useful to signal the end of a message, but maybe it would be better to form words similar to those in radio communication e.g. "ho'u" meaning just "over" and said last.  The other two serve the goal of allowing precision, but Xorban would easily survive without them. 

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co ma'a mke

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