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on 4/1/02 12:23 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> >> I've made picks: >> >> Plu - more (french) >> Zwey - most (Mandarin) >> Kam - less (Hindi) >> say - least (Cantonese) >> >> kyu bon? > > Tre bon. > > But I just realized that "kyu" is a *sentence-initial* question > particle. That's interesting. Are there any other languages that have this? Esperanto and Loglan, and I think Polish. Well, French does in effect with Est-ce que. I want kyu to be a tad more moveable than that, thus. Kuy zi ten hon. do you have a book. Zi ten hon, kyu? You have a book, do you? Zi ten kyu hon? Is it a book that you have? -- >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/