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on 2/17/04 9:19 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> faq isn't the ind ob marker as such, it just means direction. Tho > it'll >> probably end up being -one- such marker. >> >> Go tir to hon (faq) zi. >> >> Go ziq ben zi. I sing to you. >> >> In the first case, faq can be omitted because it's understandable > without >> it. >> > > "Go ziq ben zi" opens up the next can of verbs: how to handle > auxiliary verbs. > > 'I sing to benefit you.' > 'I try to benefit you.' > 'I try to help you.' > 'I can help you.' > > Or did you mean for "ben", 'benefit', to be interpreted as a > preposition? Yes. Like Mandarin. So now I'm thinking that we need a prefix that makes a verb -into- a prepostion. Way back, I was using vo Go zing voben zi. Go xaw vofaq zi. etc. -- 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