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Re: 1st paragraph of La Karavano with relex

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 17:57
There is some possibility of ambiguity when V and S come together at a
morpheme boundary, producing VSV, which could be either VS+V or V+SV, but it doesn't
seem to cause too much difficulty.

There is also a double 'n' in morphemes that were originally CVnV, but it's
not much of a problem either, as it occurs very seldom.

I've tried applying this relex to other texts, and immediately ran into the
problem of finding new forms for words not in "La karavano".  I haven't found a
good solution, but am currently using the original Esperanto form modified to
end in a vowel, so that it can take the new endings.  If the Esperanto form
already ends in a vowel, e.g., demokrati-, then I just use that, otherwise I
take the *first* vowel and add it to the end.  This is to keep all the extra
words from being boringly similar.

I tried to carry over at least the first consonant and vowel of the Esperanto
into the relex form, but this wasn't always possible.  I used VCV as one of
the frequent shapes, and most of those words are simply arbitrary.

stevo
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