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To summarize, then, names will behave like pronouns in Ceqli. That is, there need be no 'ti' the-word to set them off. They will be marked by a bound morpheme suffix. We need to have a concensus on what that suffix will be. Using so-far unassigned CV's, we have -se hamerise - united states hamerisehaim - united states country hamerisebol - us language hamerisejin - us person The downside of -se is that many of us will already be used to se as the old form of sa. -zo is also available hamerizo, hamerizohaim, hamerizobol, etc. I'm slightly inclined towards -zo, largely because the syllable will very often be embedded between the name and another compounding element, and it seems to be easier to hear. Any other suggestions? One more thing. In names with multiple elements... Now, many names will have the form of compound words: Japan (go- bread), Kuba (hit-something), etc. This is no problem, because they will hold together just like any other compound, with the following se or zo turning them into names. The problem is with multi-element names like kraun sulkizo. Should it be kraunzo sulkizo, or do we need a spoken hyphen to hook them together? I'm inclined to the hyphen, so we won't wonder if we're dealing with two names or one. Also a problem with names like South Korea. Or Never-Never Land, or Big Rock Candy Mountain. If a hyphen, it should be another CV. So I'm proposing -zo as the name suffix, and -se- as the hyphen. How about it? And I think foreign names should simply be bracketed just like any foreign word. For that, we need a CV and a beCV. After being bracketed, it can take the -zo and proceed as a name as tho it were Ceqli. And, we need a smooth way to handle Latin nomenclature, as in Homo Sapiens. Maybe more bracketing CV's Reactions to any of this?