Re: Logical Vulcan take II (and other assorted sundries)
Rob Zook 
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:04:29 -0600

At 10:18 AM 1/10/98 -0600,  wrote:
>>animals consists of er,le'matya er,seelat er,lanka'gar er,teresh,kaa
>>living creatures consist of iig,animals iig,plants iig,fungi iig,protozoa
>>
>>to fix plomiik oc,do this oc,do this oc,do this
>>
>>sutarong sholinong setalong the'ran,se le'matya'ib sehlatib sehlatib
>>"Sutar, Sholin, and Setal were killed by a le'matya, a sehlat and a sehlat,
>>respectively."
>
>Just a quick question... why all the periods?  For instance, why do you put
>{er,le'matya} and {iig,plants}?  Did I miss some sort of new rule concerning
>affixes?

Well, I would not call it a new "rule" yet. I made a suggestion a while 
back (I forget exactly when), that we put a period between two consonents,
when the consonents form a syllable boundry and not a consonent cluster.

So when adding a particle to a word, and a consonent at the end of a 
particle butts against a consonent on the end of the word it joins, it 
would seem very strange to me to blend them into a consonent cluster. 

So that period represents a little pause. Like the little 
pause between the n and the s in <consists>. Now in English we do
combine them into consonent clusters. I would not say, "con,sist,s",
I would say "con,sis,ts" while the singular has pauses like "con,sist".

I don't like that shifting of syllables without some definite rules.
Frankly, I don't like the idea at all, but then English has never been 
one of may favorite languages :-)

Rob Z.
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