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BestATN@hidden.email wrote: > >> In the interlingua, all spellings start with the semi-morph "ta" and use the >> special classifier "-nxo". > > Since the nature of a spelling is already known by its classifier, why prefix > "ta" to the spelling? > It allows prefixes to be used as semi-morphs. For example, otherwise I would not be able to use "vi", "xe", "daw", etc to represent the vowels. Also, since spellings can be quite long, "ta" provides a strong clue about the nature of the word long before the classifier "nxo" is reached. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.srv.net/~ram http://www.eskimo.com/~ram