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To check if a string begins with a '''cmene''', extract as many '''cmene-syllaboid'''s as you can from the left (possibly none), then you must find a consonant or cluster (details of which clusters are allowed are still to be worked out) followed by a [[jbocre: Morphology: special characters ause]]. In that case, you have a '''cmene''', otherwise the string does not begin with a '''cmene'''.  
I wrote a poem in reaction to [http://www.srv.net/~ram/metaphor.html ick Morneau's call to avoid metaphor in conlangs]. See [http://satirist.org/whale/ he Daily Whale] from [http://satirist.org/whale/2001/07/10.html 0 July 2001].


A '''cmene-syllaboid''' consists of an optional [[jbocre: Morphology: syllables oda]], any number of  [[jbocre: Morphology: syllables onsonantal-syllable]]s (possibly none), an [[jbocre: Morphology: syllables nset]] and a [[jbocre: Morphology: vowels ucleus]]. It can also be a [[jbocre: Morphology: vowels igit]], which stands for the syllable corresponding to its name, as in ''la 2005nan.'', the year 2005. ''(The reason to include the coda and consonantal-syllables as part of the syllaboid is so that things like ''ndoi'' are admissible.)''
''A Note to Artificial Language Designers''


==  List of examples that maybe should parse but don't ==
Put out your eyes as if they were a fire.


* masytcusets
Put out your eyes as if they were the trash.
 
Put out your eyes: They're just a metaphor.
 
Now let's get down and mosh.
 
I actually have a lot to say about metaphor. I suppose someday I'll get around to saying it.
 
''mi'e [[jbocre: jezrax|jezrax]]''
 
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''About as oblique as [[jbocre: Michael H|Helsem]], only in English instead of zirpu.''
 
Neither of us seems oblique to me ''zo'o''. I don't feel fluent enough to write in verse yet, but I'm learning. I have some ideas about how to adapt verse forms to the nature of the language. ''mi'e [[jbocre: jezrax|jezrax]]''

Revision as of 17:09, 4 November 2013

I wrote a poem in reaction to ick Morneau's call to avoid metaphor in conlangs. See he Daily Whale from 0 July 2001.

A Note to Artificial Language Designers

Put out your eyes as if they were a fire.

Put out your eyes as if they were the trash.

Put out your eyes: They're just a metaphor.

Now let's get down and mosh.

I actually have a lot to say about metaphor. I suppose someday I'll get around to saying it.

mi'e jezrax


About as oblique as Helsem, only in English instead of zirpu.

Neither of us seems oblique to me zo'o. I don't feel fluent enough to write in verse yet, but I'm learning. I have some ideas about how to adapt verse forms to the nature of the language. mi'e jezrax