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As for that 'da', I probably should do a little rewriting. You can say: felin kom karn. A cat eats meat. But for _precise_ Ceqli, when you fear that "felin kom" might be heard as a compound instead of two words, you can repeat the subject, so to speak, as the pronoun "da," to avoid the problem. felin da kom karn. But "zo" marks a name, and a name sort of IS a pronoun, in that it is always going to behave like a noun, not a verb. So while you CAN say janzo da kom karn. The need for it is virtually nonexistent. At this point, there aren't any real usage rules, and I'm trying to put Ceqli together so that it can be terse at one extreme, and precise at the other. Full precision of that first sentence would be te felin da kom te karn. Where the "te" clarifies that the following word is a noun, and the "da" that the following word is a verb. On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:32 PM, bobbyo696 wrote:
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