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On 3/5/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > All kidding aside, if Tceqli nouns are defined as meaning "is a X" > just as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions are defined as "is X", > will it screw anything up? It should probably work. I reckon it will make some sentences a bit more verbose and others less so; perhaps you could experiment with some of the existing texts and see if they would be made longer, shorter, clearer, or more obscure by this change. > We would lose, of course, the ability to have "go fiq to hon" I > finger the book. But I think that's overrated anyway. Yes, a sense \like that should be a compound with "finger" + "touch", probably. > One advantage to this is that with nouns becoming verblike, we would > be able to more honestly give them arguments: > > go pamo zi, helukozo. I am your father, Luke. > > ciba bayn go. This is my leg. I see "zi" and "go" in those sentences as modifiers (adverbs or adjectives, as you please) rather than core arguments of the verbs. If "zi" is a direct object or suchlike argument of "pamo" then the sentence would mean "I beget/begot you"; similar but subtly different in meaning. > Oh, I'm looking for a good word for 'intelligent,' preferable > reversible. An obvious reversible word for "stupid, foolish" is fol > flo or "ful" > "flu". -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm