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The the-word thing that bothers me the most is the proper-name situation. Now, a name would seem to behave exactly like a pronoun (correct me if I'm wrong), but a pronoun has a clear-cut form and is easily recognized. The problem is that the number of names is infinite, and therefore we have to somehow label names. So far we're doing it with ti or ti...beti. Loglan does it with the label 'la' and by requiring that all names end with a consonant, while no other words in the language do. I think Gua/spi doesn't make a distinction between names and nouns. How do other languages do it? We need to keep open minds here. -- 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