[YG Conlang Archives] > [Latejami group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
I would say
dasu tedapa bavi tejopaw lajonbegi xijopi
i.e. using quotes, that's what I've assumed, so the whole "tejopaw
lajonbegi xijopi" refers to "lajonbegi" and not the person.
--
Veoler
MorphemeAddict wrote
> In the sentence "Kiva bavi Lajonbegi" ("I saw John"), "Lajonbegi" is a name, but it refers to a person. When asking for someone's name, you want a name word, not a person. So would John's name be "Lajonbegi" for this question, or something else, maybe with the performance component classifier "kus", i.e., jonkusi or Lajonkusi?
>
> For the time being I shall assume that one would use "Lajonbegi" in this kind of case. This would produce the answer "Dasu tedapa bavi Lajonbegi". Now, does this name need to be quoted, since John isn't the same as his name "John"?
> Is the answer "Dasu tedapa bavi tejopaw Lajonbegi xijopi"? Quoting the name is cumbersome, though, so I wonder if it would just be done in the most formal or detailed circumstances.