On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:19 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+= jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:

At the time I wrote that, I was tired enough to think that {mu'i} was right. Silly me. Yes, {ri'a} is what I meant.

I would read {paunai ri'a ma mi mutce tatpi} as "Why am I very tir= ed?"

My initial thought was (correcting for the causal) {ri'a ma paunai ni mi tatpi kei fa li so'e} - "Why is the degree to which I'm tir= ed high
[on the obvious scale]?"

Yeah, the "high= " part is why I said mutce.
=A0

I thought to leave the first place empty and let pragmatics indicate
that there was something unusual about the degree to which I was tired
(or else I wouldn't be asking the rhetorical question). Now that I
think about it, it could equally well mean "Why am I so not-tired?&quo= t;

My justification for using {ni} as opposed to {mutce} is to call
attention to the degree of my tiredness as unusual. I know why I'm
very tired: I only got 5 hours of sleep. What I don't know is why I
feel more tired today than on other days when I've gotten 5 hours of sleep.

ki'e

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:36 PM, ianek <janek37@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think {mu'i} i= s the correct choice here, you're not tired
> because something motivates you (or are you?). I would use {ri'a},=
> because tiredness is your physical reaction.
> And {ni} is not quite right pe'i. You're saying "Why [som= ething] is a
> quantity of my tiredness [measured on some scale]". xorxes transl= ate
> "so" as {tai}, but I doubt it's always good. Personally = I would
> translate it as {paunai ri'a ma mi mutce tatpi}, but this may be > controversial. "So" is so strange a word...
>
> mu'o mi'e ianek
>
> On 12 Mar, 22:03, ".arpis." <rpglover64+jbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> {.i mu'i ma pau nai ni mi tatpi}
>>
>> Also, I think I might be getting blocked by a spam filter or somet= hing
>> (Either that or my questions and responses are really boring).
>> {e'o ko doi da spuda}
>> Please someone respond.
>>
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>> mu'o mi'e .arpis.
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