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Re: [ceqli] Names

In a message dated 8/9/2005 11:15:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, jimhenry1973@hidden.email writes:


> 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:

This is good.  I think you should stick with it.
I have more name suffixes in gjax-zym-byn, but just one is
probably right for an IAL.


Marking names is necessary only for certain reasons, mostly having to do with logic and/or unambiguous speech streams.  Thus they are marked in Loglan and Lojban, and in Ladekwa, but not in conlangs generally, and never (I believe) in natlangs, except by syntactic rules (e.g. non-use in English of definite article "the" with names).

Is it necessary to mark names specially in ceqli at all?

stevo