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on 3/19/02 1:28 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: >> >> 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"). I like gaq better than co! It also oddly calls the German to mind. -- >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/