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Esperanto has the 'sukero' problem. That is, 'suker' is the root for 'sugar,' but it can also be read as 'suk-ero,' meaning a 'drop of juice.' Texperanto intends to avoid such things as much as possible. The first draft of the endings, at http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Texperanto.html is little changed from the Esperanto endings. Now, I'm inclined to try to revise them so that there will be less likelihood of sukeros cropping up. For example, there are many roots that Texperanto might have that end in -aro. There'd be much less chance of a problem if the - aro (group of) ending were replaced by something somewhat more complicated, or at least less likely to end a root. This goes for just about all endings in VC (vowel plus consonant), but we don't want a set of weird endings either. They should be pronouncable, esthetic, and unlikely to clash with roots. Finally, they should be somewhat easy to learn by being derived from natural languages wherever possible, all things being equal. I already got rid of the -ero, replacing it with -isko (sort of from Russian iskra, 'spark'), but that was to liberate the -ero so it could be used as the masculine equivalent of -ino. So, let's see what we can replace -aro with: My first thought is -ugo, faintly suggesting the English 'group.' And a root is less likely to end in -ug than in -ar, I believe. Another possibility would be -arzo, which preserves the -ar but adds a suggestion of plurality. I'm open to suggestions.