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Re: infinitives



--- In texperanto@yahoogroups.com, "Rex May" <rmay@m...> wrote:
> Here's a thought.  Change the -ar ending meaning group to something else.  Then make 
the 
> infinitive ending -aro, appropriate because it suggests romance infinitive endings, and 
> because an infinitive does behave a lot like a noun.

I would stick with unstressed "-ar" for the infinitive. We Western language speakers are 
taught that infinitives are verb forms and it becomes a complicated thing to explain why 
they should look like nouns.

> 
> I'm still wanting input on what the -aro meaning group ending ought to be.

Still thinking....

---larry