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On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:40:22PM -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > Can we tack "sa" onto an adjective "xxx" to mean "a/some xxx > one/ones"? For example, "blusa" to mean "a blue one/some blue ones" or > "zosa" to mean "a male/some males". I'm thinking of something like: > > Go ten tri kan, han byelsa kai du kalasa. I wouldn't reuse "sa" for that - it could make the word attach to another word you didn't intend. I know that ambiguity isn't a problem in Ceqli, but it seems this would happen fairly often. But this brings up an interesting point. How much are the grammatical classes distinguished in Ceqli? I know that adjectives are actually verbs, but can you use verbs as nouns as well? Can you use nouns as verbs? Is the only difference whether they're inside a t-clause or not, which would be the same as in Lojban? And instead of sending another message, I'll go on to something else I'm wondering about. Is 'faul' still a valid morpheme in Ceqli? Is 'fawl'? If both are acceptable, how is the pronunciation different? My impression is that it would be easier to just use weaks to form diphthongs: ay, ey, oy, aw, (ew?), ya, ye, yo, yu, wa, we, wi, wo. -- Rob Speer