... Tre bon. But I just realized that "kyu" is a *sentence-initial* question particle. That's interesting. Are there any other languages that have this? -- ...
... Esperanto and Loglan, and I think Polish. Well, French does in effect with Est-ce que. I want kyu to be a tad more moveable than that, thus. Kuy zi ten...
... [...] ... Not, "Is it you that has a book?"? Like: Kyu zi ten to hon, kyu da? Is it you that has the book, or is it her? ... And maybe: Zi kyu ten hon, kyu...
... No, the 'ke' is like the 'that' in English, introducing a phrase which may or may not be an independent sentence. Fuke go kom, da ho dorm. After that I...
... That's a good point. No, I intended the initial Kyu to simply turn the statement into a question. Then I realized it could be used later in the sentence...
Unfortunately, this group was created during that brief time that Ceqli was named Txeqli. I don't think there's any way to rename the group itself, which...
I do have a bit of smiling enthusiasm for the curious, Basque-like "TX" but either choice is fine with me. We ought to decide now before there is more ...
Aspect. So far, Ceqli has the progressive aspect with particle 'gi' Go soma. I read. Go gi soma. I am reading. And it sort of has aspect with the composite...
... Maybe better: Kyu zi bi ten to hon sa pe, kyu da? But, I'd think that in normal speech, stressing the zi would get the point across. ... Anybody know how...
I have Ceqli operating pretty much like English and other western languages that I know about, that is, Pake zi fey ho dorm, zi dwa kom. Before you can go to...
... I don't think the same particle should be used both for past tense and for perfect aspect. What if I want to express the perfect and ignore the tense?...
... Good point. The only thing that corresponds in English that I know of is the dialectal 'done', which seems to be tense-free at least in some instances....
... intertwined ... semantically. ... In fact, it really is more nearly correct to say that Russian (and other Slavic lanugages, too) uses different verbs for...
... You're quite right, and me with a degree in Russian! ... I don't want to eliminate the tense markers, but I'd like to have the aspect markers also,...
Okay, at this point we have two aspect markers: Je 'Already' from Russian Gi -ing, progressive, ongoing. and, I see no reason why the compound tenses can't...
... Lojban uses separate words for aspect. Here they are, with an example of what they would mean if used in the sentence "mi ca ____ tavla" (which, without an...
... I really like "done" in this meaning, as opposed to "already". Existing Ceqli "fin" might also be usable, but I can see it having a slightly different...
I'm beginning to get the feeling that Ceqli is a sort of mixture of English (and other Indo-European) approaches and Mandarin approaches. Since English has so...
... Sure, sort of. ... I don't see this as a flaw, but as flexibility. ... I'm generally placing modifiers in front of verbs, be they adverbs or whatever....
... Okay. Now, 'don' is already used for 'give,' but we can use 'dun.' My first urge would be to use is as an auxiliary verb, IE style. Go fu dun kom, fuco...
... Here I don't follow you. The before a noun part, I mean. I'm not at all wedded to the meaning of gi as both progressive particle and 'during', but I see...
... As a semi-fluent Glosa speaker, I have to chime in here. On a side note, there is some substantial disagreement on the Glosa list right now about tense,...
