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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:01 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> {mi mo'u jgari} means that you're talking about the end of the event
> of you grasping something. Again, it is not specified whether this
> event is in the present, etc.

I think the question was what exactly constitutes the end of an event
of jgari. What happens right after "mi mo'u jgari lo plise lo xance"?
Is the apple now firmly in my hand, or have I just dropped it? Does
jgari describe a state or a change of state?

The problem is that the English words used to describe it are
ambiguous. "Hold" describes a state, while "seize" describes a change
of state ("take hold"). When I finish holding an apple, I no longer
have it. When I finish seizing it, I am holding it. "mo'u jgari" could
describe the end of the state, the end of holding, so that after that
I'm no longer holding, or it could describe the completion of the
change of state, so that after that I have completed the seizing, the
taking hold of, and so I'm holding it.

There are many words like this one, where the English gloss doesn't
make clear whether they describe a state or a change of state. In such
cases, I think it's better to take them as describing a state, because
the change of state is easier to derive from the state than the other
way around.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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