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on 1/29/04 10:31 AM, Garrett Jones at alkaline@hidden.email wrote: >> Welcome, Garrett! Thanks for the examples -- I'll let Rex address >> the various meanings of 'the' and 'a'. But I did want to mention >> that the indefinite article is not implicit: it's "te". >> >> ---Larry >> "Krawn" > > not according to these examples in the grammar: > > To xyen bi di. The dog is an animal. > To xyen bi to di. The dog is the animal. > > Go ga. I am big. > Go bi jin. I am a person. > First off, the Ceqli site at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7429/ can't be updated, in case you're looking at it. Back when Geocities merged with Yahoo, it stopped accepting my password and I haven't been able to modify it since. Now. I always liked Loglan and I always liked the pigin-style of Mandarin. So I said, let's have all the neat disambiguating features of Loglan, but let's make them -optional-. Hence: Go bu pipyar grin bin. I don't like green beans. Go bu pipyar te grinse bin. Same, for talking to computers or people who might misunderstant. I like the idea for the set of t-words. I'll continue in reply to the other post. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm