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I continue to agonize over names. I first encountered the concept of names as a distinct grammatical category in Loglan, and I was intrigued by it. I think that in one way or another this concept is pretty essential to language. Now, I've considered the Loglan system, which, essentially, requires that all names end in consonants, which makes them distinct from all other words. However, if we're going to have self-segregating morphology, this entails requiring that names always be followed by a pause, so that the consonant won't seem to be part of the following word. This makes for a large variety of possible names, and for terse ones, for that matter, but the pause rule gives me pause. I've thought of calling for a glottal stop instead of a pause, but then it would have to have a letter, or some kind of a rule that a blank space after a cuaba (the Ceqli version of the 'end in a consonant' rule would of course be 'end in a cuaba) calls for that glottal stop. We could then have some monosyllabic names, which would be nice: janzo duel ci dom > jans (or whatever) duel ci dom But I think that's beginning to look non-Ceqli. Anyhow, to summarize, here's the way I see Ceqli names at this point: The name root is followed by -zo in all cases: janzo, jansonzo, xikagozo, etc. And in order to specify what sort of thing is named, the whole thing can be sa'ed or hu'ed: Go duel xikagozo sa ceq. I live in the city of Chicago. Go xau fiuma hu vabaxozo. I see the river Wabash. Or made into a compound: Hemehikozoceq bi kulcem ceq hu sta to dunia. Mexico city is the biggest city in the world. And, I realize, jin/o/i can also be used in compounds: Sulkizojino bol volapukozobol. Mr. Sulky speaks Volapuk. Am I on the right track here?