Re: [jboske] more on shortening romu'ei stuff

[Adam Raizen <araizen@cs.huji.ac.il>]

la djorden. cusku di'e

>Seems that a lot of use of mu'ei is either going to be ro or su'o.
>(probably mostly the former). What about making a pair of cmavo
>in selma'o TAhE (roi doesn't allow having a default for the number)
>which do that? If the one for ro could be single syllable it would
>be all the better: perhaps 'xau'. Not sure if the one for su'o is
>as useful, and as such if it's even worth creating I'd definitely
>not recommend a xVV for it.

The su'o version is, I think, exactly ka'e, and I've already proposed
an experimental cmavo for the ro version: bi'ai. I agree that bi'ai
might be a bit long, though. Maybe we should wait and see for sure.

>(note that doing as such would make for counterfactual conditionals
>taking no more syllables than indicative ones: mi xaugi xagji gi
>citka vs. mi ganai xagji gi citka).

I would say: mi bi'ai gi xagji gi citka.

mu'o mi'e .adam.