Matthew Turnbull wrote:So a polite prelude to a converstion would be
A : Ne dau/gen zongas zai?
B : Makea zong ji
How would one catch someone's attention then? Like with an English "Excuse me, but ...?" I think that to continue on with this theme we have going, something like oma makea zai? there is peace?
Oh, I like
oma there, if it means something like "there is". Even if it doesn't, it looks like it might come in handy in a number of expressions (that I haven't thought up yet-- just a hunch).
I should comb through some of these threads to find bits of undocumented vocabulary.
So, "Oma makea zai?" to get someone's attention works for me.