From jorge@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Wed May 5 04:05:51 1999
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Message-ID: <44114.131.790.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:05:51 -0300
From: "=?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: coi roda

la spigot cusku di'e

>.i mi pu de'a tadni ze'u (i stop studying for long periods of time)

Since we're talking about event contours...

What this actually says to me is that you stop a long period of 
studying. I'm assuming that what you wrote is equivalent
to {mi pu de'a ze'u tadni}.

Even the reverse order is not what you want: {mi pu ze'u de'a tadni}
would mean that it took you a long time to stop studying.

The grammar doesn't really go into that much detail about these
compound contours, so I have to warn that the above is how I 
interpret compound contours: each one is a contour for everything 
that follows.

Your interpretation would be right if {de'a} marked the period
between stopping and resuming the study. I take {de'a} to mark
the change from studying to non-studying.

To get your meaning I'd have to say something like 
{lo clani cu temci le nu mi de'a tadni kei le nu mi di'a tadni}
"There is a long period of time between the time I stop
studying and the time I resume." 

I can't think of a way to do it with contours only. Perhaps your 
interpretaton of {de'a} really is more useful. Then we could 
use {co'a de'a} for the start of the non-study interval and 
{co'u de'a} would be equivalent to {di'a}.

>.i mi pu di'a tadni so'oroi (i have resumed studying several times)

I would say {mi pu so'oroi di'a tadni} to get that meaning.
Otherwise, with your order, to me it would mean that you 
resumed your several times of study: one resumption after 
an interruption of the several times series, not several 
resumptions.

>.ipe'i mi juxre cusku

i pe'i na go'i i do drani je certu pilno le gerna

>.i pe'u ko ciksi le mi srera mi 

i je'e i ku'i lei srera na so'imei

>ni'o de'i vo pi'e pare pi'e soso 

i zo li se nitcu

>.i mi puki briju gunka piso'iroi le ca djedi 

i i'e i'o nu pilno lu piso'iroi li'u

>.i .o'u mi ba za'o stali
>le briju ki'u lenu la kim .e la .adibas. djuctu 

i pe'i zo djutcu enai zo djuctu

>.i mi ba jukpa le barda ledgrute .e le sanso .e le runme cirla
>.e le crino sluni gi'e punji ra le nanba .uiro'osai 

i do punji le runme cirla ji piro le se jukpa le nanba
i pe'i zo ra sinxa le cirla kupo'o

co'o mi'e xorxes