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The form a class of words of quite new creation.

These shortwords permit to express certain general notions of which they are, so to say, the « symbols ».

We may define them as the oral gestures of the language.

The staffwords are never joined to the words to which they relate; they have the two following forms:

Ist — Shortwords of 2 or 3 letters finishing by u (no other vowel in the word). They are to the number of 45.

It is indispensable to know the nine following staffwords:

Indeed there is no other means of effectuating these translations.

The other staffwords of this form serve to the « fabrication » of the words and supply the English prefixes. It is interesting, though not indispensable, to know them by heart.