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Question: When it comes syllabicating words, you break after vow

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Jan 01 2021, 6:41am CST ~ 2 weeks, 7 days ago.

Question: When it comes syllabicating words, you break after vowels, except if two constonant comes after it, then you break between the consonants and if there is an affix, you break between the affix and the root, right?

Jan 02 2021, 9:35am CST ~ 2 weeks, 5 days ago.

@Sila That sounds roughly correct. I’m having difficulty finding words that would break those rules.

Jan 02 2021, 12:20pm CST ~ 2 weeks, 5 days ago.

A bunch of the affixes start out as infixes (-um-) or postfixes that become infixes (-in) / (-an)...as opposed to MA- / MAG- and other prefixes

MAmatay - natural death; MAGmatay - extinguish lights/aircon/TV/etc

pINatay; pINapatay; papatayIN - murder

pUMatay; pUMapatay; papatay - kill more generally

Of course the structure of them fit seamlessly into the consonant(s) - vowel chunks. Just so your thinking of the "more fun" in the Philippines that waits in the affixes.

Enjoy

Jan 02 2021, 12:47pm CST ~ 2 weeks, 5 days ago.

@jkos Thank you!

Jan 02 2021, 12:49pm CST ~ 2 weeks, 5 days ago.

@BoraMac Thanks! If it would be easy it would be less fun

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