On 4/2/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> The good news is I don't intend it to be an auxlang for this world. But
> maybe some other world (a parallel Earth) could use it.
.....
> (vaguely specified) design goals. But the design requirements of an
> auxlang make for an interesting challenge in language design, so I'm
> thinking of it as an auxlang for a fictional Earth.
Have you any definite ideas about the conhistory of this world
and how its international language movement(s) differ from ours?
> The verb and its objects: All arguments of a verb are called "objects"
> ("le oje") in Tiki grammar. The o-object (patient) is like a direct
> object in English, although it may be used without an overt subject. The
> subject is generally marked with an e-object (agent or cause). There are
> also other kinds of objects, like the de-object (source) and the
> to-object (destination).
This looks spiffy; I'd like to see more.
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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry