Re: Liaison

— In glosalist@yahoogroups.com, “himalayanpussycat” maryannehanna@...= wrote:

Glosa uses a kind of liaison (apparently inherited from a, an);=

when

the words like a, u or ko are followed by a vowel or h (consonant= ; this is a legacy of silent h; it’s about time we grouped it not with =

vowels but with consonants, no?) d or n are added to create a liaison= , making ad, un, or kon (I consider this too as a kind of inflection): =

• u –> U plus(o) bibli. (Another [additional] book)
• un –> Un heter= o bibli. (Another [different] book)
• a –> An pa trena a Paris. (He ‘tr= ained’ [went by train] to Paris)
• ad –> Mi pa veni ad Italia pre bi a= nua. (I came to Italy two years ago)
• ko –> dice Glosa ko mi. (spea= k Glosa with me.)
• kon –> Na pa unio kon an a tri horo. (We met him [b= y appointment] at three.) However, this rule is not consistently app= lied:

• u(n) –> France es u Euro-landa. (France is a Euro-country)

  u(n) –> verifi u horo-tabula (check the time table)

• u(n) –> dupe un= publika kampania (run an advertising campaign)
• ko(n) –> Ko u-ci gram= a mi mite u posta karta de mi urba; (With this mail I send a postcard of= my town;) And why isn’t the same rule applied to other similar words; e= , ab, pa, in, etc.?

This rule may seem “natural” or “nicer” to an= glophones but for people of many other languages it strikes you as odd. = […]

NB: All examples come from “18 Steps to Fluency”

You are not w= rong! I find your examples in “18 Steps to Fluency” and some others curios= ities!. The primitive rules seems very englih (word order, elision) and it =

may be a good think to redefine them now days with more regularity. For me= the writen Glosa cannot accept any variations, always “ad” or “a” but not= the two, always “Kon” or “Ko” but not the two… And the hiato always the= good way.

To speak is an other problem! Tolerance! Tolerance!

When I li=

sten the MP3 documents, if Ron and Wendy are speaking, my

wife said to me =

“You are learning English now!”, and I expect that if I said some words = in Glosa, you can answer :”when you speak Glosa it is liking french!”

Per= haps, actually, nobody are realy glosa speaker. The writen Glosa is the no= rmalizes, and the work of the community may be to perfect it.

The good que= stion :”Who are now the deciders? What commity? Nobody? Everyone?”

Plu am= ika Daniel