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on 3/18/02 10:27 AM, John Schilke at doc@hidden.email wrote: > After my spate of enthusiasm, let me explain. I think it would be extremely > useful to have a particle that means "what has just been said." Glosa does > do this, and the innovation works well. > > Note the following (a partial list), noting that "co" is pronounced "cho": > po co after that > plus co moreover > para co by the way > homo co similarly > tem co meanwhile > anti co however > seqe co consequently, > suma co summing up, > and perhaps a dozen other expressions. > > Well worth a thought. > John > I'm all for this. Weirdly, when I had the here/there/over there paradigm of ci, ca, and cu, with 'ce' already meaning 'six,' I considered the leftover 'co' to mean exactly what it means in glosa. Now, we need a good word form here, and it should be of the form CV, I believe, for shortness. I'm inclined toward 'de.' Any other notions? John, is Glosa co used alone? I mean, in the sense of 'That's right.' > -- >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/