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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Marcos Cramer" <marcos.cramer@...> wrote: > > I've started reading the story, and it's quite a nice experience to read my > first Ceqli text. > > > I'm following the all lower case system here, and it feels awkward. Seems > unnatural. Would it be > > unCeqlilike to capitalize the first word of a sentence and/or first letter > of names? > > My feeling is that capitals aren't needed at all, and just add an > unnecessary complication to the language. But then that's just my oppinion. Yes, I'm inclined to say they're optional. They have a slight advantage to signal the beginning of a sentence, but certainly not enough to require them. > > > I coined joqdawxu - war-way-art, for martial arts. But would peldawxu be > better? fight-way-art? > > Yes, martial arts certainly have more to do with fighting then with war. > > Why is the "daw" needed in the compounds? Couldn't it just be "pelxu"? Good question. I'm thinking that pelxu might be the word for 'type of fighting,' to include boxing, etc., whereas 'peldawxu' seems more like the religious/philosophical thing we usually mean by 'martial arts.' > > Do names always have to end in "zo", or is that an optional disambiguator? > Just about always, tho I can see in conversation that you might say jo instead of jozo. Thing about names is that the usual semantic meanings of their form is 'turned off' by the 'zo' ending. This allows an infinite number of names while minimizing the confusion.