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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > on 2/15/04 5:32 PM, oskar2379 at xeubie@h... wrote: > Rats. I thought I would get the first answer in, not the third! > To bon de xyen ca joy de dorm sta to dom. Replace "ca" with "sa", here and below. > > The good dog happily sleeps in the house. > > 'Hu' acts as 'de', except it marks that what follows modifies what goes > before, the opposite f 'de.' > > To xyen hu bon ca dorm hu joy sta to dom. > > Admittedly, I don't have a good way to separate the dorm and sta in the > first sentence and the joy and sta in the second... Krawn? I consider prepositions as phrase markers implicitly. "sta" marks an object phrase...sort of. > Maybe it should > be: > > To bon de xyen ca joy de dorm hu sta to dom. > > indicating that 'sta to dom' is a modifier of dorm. Also a reasonable way to do it, and perhaps more logical because "sta to dom" functions as an adverb of place, not really as an indirect object of the verb "dorm". But either way, letting "sta" and the other few prepositions be phrase separators is, I think, a good idea. ---Krawn