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Names again



Not contradicting anything already agreed upon, but trying to look at names from a different angle:

The particle 'zo' marks the morpheme or compound before it as a unit, bereft of its ordinary Ceqli meaning. In any case I can think of, this would have to be a name. Consequently, these names are themselves morphemes (marked by. and including the ending 'zo.') So....

go ten japan.   I have go-bread (perhaps the hobbits' 'waybread')
go duel japanzo.  I live in Japan.
Now, for national-names, to be specific, you can say:
japanzohaim, japanzobol, japanzojin
but you don't have to if the context is adequate:

go japanzo bol.   I speak japanese (japanesely, a la Esperanto)
go bol japanzo.  I speak japanese.
kraunzo bu bi japanzo.   Larry is not Japanese.

So 'ti' would serve mostly to mark long expressions as names, and I suggest we hold such things to a minimum — to haimgubo hu japanzo is not a name, despite its current uniqueness. But the USA, I think, would be 'ti hanho haimki hu hamerizohaim', or a name. So the country is the HHH in Ceqli.

Rex May
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