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on 3/3/02 6:40 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rob Speer wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:40:10PM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >>> That's sort of true, which is why I've made the 'the' words all in the form >>> tV(V), as an assistance. >> >> But there's other grammatical words like 'be' and 'sa'. >> >>> 'pe xi, ' BTW, would be a strange combination. Normally, as Mike would >>> point out, it would be 'xi pe,' or 'xisa pe.' So why does this not >>> invalidate 'pexi,' etc. >> >> Oh. I got the impression that 'pe xi' and 'pexi' would be different ways >> to spell the same thing. Otherwise, how would you tell the difference >> when spoken? 'sa' should be necessary to prevent the morphemes from >> forming a compound. >> >> I suppose there would be no problem with stress if you're not allowed to >> write 'blu faul' in the first place; you'd have to write either 'blusa >> faul' or 'blufaul'. > [...] > > 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 don't think we need any sa's here. I think the English usage would be clear enough. Go ten tri kan, han byel kai du kala. For 'one', in a case like this, you can use 'vo' if it seems necessary. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/