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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > on 3/19/02 10:06 AM, John Schilke at doc@hidden.email wrote: > > > Rex May asked, > >> John, is Glosa co used alone? I mean, in the sense of 'That's right.' > > I really don't know. I think not, for I've never seen it. It could be a > > curious near-reversal for us of "OK." > > Right. I just found it in a Glosa dictionary, and it says 'only in > compounds,' which is too bad, because it would work fine. "Co korekti" > would make a fine Glosa phrase. > > Anyhow, the Ceqli equivalent certainly will be used in compounds and as an > independent word. I see "covo" in the glossary. Are you planning on sticking with "co"? I was thinking of Mandarin "gang1", which includes the meaning "just now". In addition to stealing it as a Ceqli correlative, "gaq" (the just mentioned ...), you could borrow the reduplicated form as "gaqgaq", which is used as a stand-alone word for "just now" (gang1gang1 lai2le = "just arrived"), as well as a kind of intensifier for certain stative verbs (gang1gang1 hao3 = "just right"). -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net ____________________________________________________________ "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, however, there is." -- Anonymous