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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 03:33:13 GMT
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philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk skribis en lastatempa afisxo <803164671snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk>:

> [Stuff about Eurolang ending -(a)tion, followed by...]

>The Eurolang rule is:
>
>if (word ends in -t)
>   add -ion
>else if (word ends in a vowel)
>   remove vowel, add -ation
>else
>   add -ation
>endif
>
For comparison, the Esperanto rule to form the same sort of words:

add -ad- after the stem.

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