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on 3/3/02 8:45 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > 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? After the initial appreciation of the elegance of the loglan morpheme's noun/adjective/verb roles, I came to feel that while the verb/adjective equivalence made perfect sense, the paradigm: le mrenu the man mi mrenu I am-a-man da mrenu gotso He goes in a man-tupe way. Was not useful. Far better to let a nounish word like hamer operate this way: To hamer The hammer Go hamer. I hammer (use a hammer, or hit as though with a hammer) As English does, and let Da bi hamer Mean "It's a hammer". >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/