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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > on 2/21/04 2:49 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@r... wrote: > > > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > > --SNIP-- --SNIP-- > > Maybe we can solve the word-order problem thus. > > Co bon, zi sta ci. (What will be said next) is good, you are here > zi sta ci, ce bon. You are here (What has just been said) is good. > I like that! It then becomes (1) a description of the utterance, and (2) the utterance itself, quite separate. And if we need to, we can bracket our description with "beco" or "bece", respectively. (Good old "be"!) "Ke" could also play that role, I suppose...marking the beginning of the main phrase rather than the end of the attitudinal, which is, of course, the same place. > OTOH, Most of the time we want to start with the attitudinal anyway. > > Bon ke zi sta ci. > Nah. SVO is the rule, as you said, so let's not create things that look like exceptions (whether they really are or not). It's just more stuff to explain to people trying to learn the language. --Krawn