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Date:         Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:03:25 +0000
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From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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Jorge:
> >What if I don't want to say it's a medium distance, either? What if
> >I just want to say what the distance is, without making a judgement
> >of its magnitude relative to other distances?
> I don't think za and va make such judgement. The gloss "medium"
> only makes sense when they are used contrastively with the -i and -u
> forms. If you still think that there is such a judgement, then it will
> be one that the language forces you to make, just as English requires
> you to use tense, for example.

I was going by the maoste & refgrammar. I suppose if your use of
za/va was authorized then they could be understood as meaning
"medium" only when no distance is specified. But that's not how
it is at present. Coo; mie and.