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on 3/27/02 1:14 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > > Both just one syllable, though. Or do you mean the number of letters? > >> It'll be a very >> frequent word, and shd really have a CV form. So it's co(vo). Now, I >> think we can coin the compound 'fuco' meaning 'after that which has just >> been said,' So. >> >> Da kwaysa kom fuco ho dorm. He quickly ate, then went to sleep. > > So, can we then say the following? > > "Da ho dorm paco kwaysa kom." "He went to sleep (and) before that > quickly ate." Meaning, "Before eating, he ate quickly." (And that's > why he woke up with indigestion.) > > This would make "fuco" and "paco" work a lot like Mandarin <yi3hou4> > and <yi3qian2>, respectively. > > But what would you think of something even closer to the Mandarin, > like this? > > Da kwaysa kom safu, ho dorm. > Da ho dorm sapa, kwaysa kom. > > In these, "kwaysa kom safu" and "ho dorm sapa" would be time-when > adverbial phrases. However, it should also be possible to repeat the > subject--especially since there could be two subjects: > > "Go kom safu, da ho dorm." "After I ate, he went to sleep." Boy, this really confuses me. My inclination would be to use Fu go kom, da ho dorm. Or, for extreme clarity Fuke go kom, da ho dorm. Or, for computer-programming clarity Fuke go kom beke, da ho dorm. So, analysing your forms, what's happening is that 'kwaysa kom' modifies 'fu'. So you're sort of regarding 'fu' as an adverb, a la mandarin. Whereas I'm regarding it as a conjunction, admittedly doubling as an adverb for the purpose of simple tense indication. Can both these forms be used? Anybody else's input here? -- >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/