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Re: [ceqli] new, young

I'm new to Ceqli, so my oppinion might not be very competent.

I don't feel the necessity for the difference between "young" and "new". In the few cases where the differences matters, in can be made explicit in some way.

I guess the reason why we say "I bought a new dog" is because the dog is new to me. So if we want to make this explicit in Ceqli (in order to avoid confusion with "young") we should add something like "to me" to the modifier.

My attempt: "go posel pigil ko go sa kanin".

(Correct me if the grammar is wrong)

That would also allow for disambiguating "I bought a new car": "go posel pigil gari" vs "go posel pigil ko go sa gari". (Is "gari" the right word? In the word list it says "gari" means "car (of train etc)", so I'm not sure whether it also means "car" as in "automobile").

In the word list you also have "jun" and "pojun" for "young" and "old" respectively. Are these now obsolete? If yes, why did you choose to base the words for "young" and "old" on the abstract noun "age", whereas other adjectives like "bel" and "haw" are basic rather than based on abstract nouns for "beauty" and "goodness". At any rate, how do you say "beauty" and "goodness" in Ceqli?

Sorry for asking so many questions, when I ment to write an answer. As a novice to Ceqli, it's hard to find answers to many questions, given that the online grammar and word lists aren't very detailed.

Marcos Cramer