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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > on 4/1/02 12:23 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: [...] > > 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. Not, "Is it you that has a book?"? Like: Kyu zi ten to hon, kyu da? Is it you that has the book, or is it her? > Zi ten hon, kyu? You have a book, do you? > > Zi ten kyu hon? Is it a book that you have? And maybe: Zi kyu ten hon, kyu bu ten? Is it that you *have* a book, or don't you? I'm assuming that "kyu" makes the following word the focus of a question, except, obviously, when it's at the end of the sentence. Does Ceqli also use Mandarin-style choice-type questions? -- 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