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Re: Tu ta pasa Tiki, he mo vuhu so ka sina

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 6:18
On 4/5/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> Names are > placed after a descriptive noun which gives the general category of > meaning: languages with "pasa", countries with "kuni", cities with > "site", and so on.
Sounds like the Toki Pona approach. (Or like the practice I've seen in a Chinese book of putting a mark next to characters used as a phonetic transcription of a proper name, to show that they're not used for their meaning.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>