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Rex:-> You could be right. If so, how about zoype instead of
bupe?
Ray:-> Possibly, but "zoy" is Chinese ling2
which is "nulo" in Esperanto and "zero" in Ido, Interlingua and
English. For "no(thing)", chinese uses "mei2(shen2me)" which means
"without-thing", Esperanto uses "nenio", Ido uses "nulo" and Interlingua uses
"nil"! All of these languages have separate words for "no/not": bu4
(Chinese), ne (Esperanto and Ido) and "non" in Interlingua. For
"no-one/nobody", Chinese uses "mei2ren2" (without-person), Esperanto uses
"neniu", Ido Uses "nulu" and Interlingua uses "necuno", with a separate
entry "nullitate" for when "nobody" means "a non-entity". Esperanto
uses either "senvalorulo" or "nulo/nulu" for that meaning, and Ido uses either
"senvalora homo" or "zero/zeru".
So your "zoype" would mean "nobody =
non-entity" and the ceqli word for "nobody = without-person" would be
"sinpe".
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