Using the core 8

Here are a bunch of useful phrases involving the core words to illustrate why they were important enough to be the core.

Keep in mind that u can mean whatever it needs to, so it sort of translates as "it", "the thing", "the kind of thing", and such; it's a universal pronoun, and can refer to animate and inanimate things alike.

• u re can mean "that is also it", which roughly translates as "the" in most contexts.
• u ro can mean "or something" / "that sort of thing".
• u ri re can mean "that is not it / the one".
• re ri means "not both".
• ro ri means "neither".
• A B e ri ro means "either it's not A or it's B", which can be used for implicative statements; e can be dropped for the reverse order.
• a re means "of", like "A of B"; e can be added for the reverse order.
• o … i lets you interject about something in the middle of a sentence.
• i at the beginning of a sentence reaffirms the thing before it, which is why it functions kind of like sentence-initial conjunctions.

Extra words

Two more, for describing situations involving certain objects:

• no 1:1 some (a situation/object having the given thing)
• na 2:1 all (a situation/object where all parts that are the first are the second)

no is useful for describing situations that have something but are not the thing itself, which should cover a lot of things that ordinarily would require a subclause. na should cover use of the verb "to be" in a subclause, or if it needs to be explicit. We don't need "none" because that would be no ri.

Beyond this point, unless it's clear that a word is used a lot, we should probably stop allocating small words, and instead gradually move longer words down into that space.