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on 2/18/03 9:35 PM, Rob Speer at rspeer@hidden.email wrote: > Even without Lojbanesque abstractions, I think it's important to have > the separator word suggested earlier on, 'ke', roughly serving the > purpose of 'that'. Otherwise you just have a mess of nouns and verbs. Agreed. Certainly in written Ceqli. I think you can drop the 'ke' in speech where intonation and stress make the meaning clear. But when in doubt, keep the 'ke.' -- >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/ceqli/