ansric | Re: si e si
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Cook" <didymus857@...>
wrote:
>
> Alo,
>
> Is 'se' not suitable or it is used elsewhere? I hate to be a pain
> about this, I am just curious. I believe this is a great idea and
> concept for a language and it works well, but I would think there
> might be another way to work this. Yes, it is petty on my part but
> after looking at nearly every IAL, it is something i haven't seen
> before. I think the main idea behind constructed languages is
clarity.
> I feel it could be changed somehow to make it less likely to be an
issue.
"Se" is the third-person possessive.
It is possible to produce an ambiguity in speech with "si":
--Nos va es rica!
--Si[,] tu es coreta.
I'm not sure how damning that would actually be. One could always
use "suposa ce" (I would actually expect ?supose/-i here. Odd)
for "if" and "vera" or "[de] acorda" for "yes."
> Are there plans for a text book?
>
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lingua_Franca_Nova
Steve