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on 4/1/02 6:46 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > 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? Maybe better: Kyu zi bi ten to hon sa pe, kyu da? But, I'd think that in normal speech, stressing the zi would get the point across. > >> 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? Anybody know how Esperanto handles this problem? Probably Chu estas vi kiu havas libron? or, just like english. Trying to put that into Ceqli the same way... Well, the closest I can come is as above, Kyu zi bi ten to hon sa pe. or maybe Kyu zi bi pe hu ten to hon? -- >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/