Re: [bpfk-announce] Re: Current checkpoint

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:59:35PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:02:13PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> > On 6/9/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >I propose that we set the following deadlines for voting on the
> > >"Attitudinals and Discursives" checkpoint:
> > >
> > >June 18: Digressives SEI SEhU TO TOI (Shepherd: Jorge Llambias)
> > 
> > There having been no objections, and no votes against, I would
> > like to ask the jatna to declare this section checkpointed.
> 
> My aplogies for being late to the party, but I'd really like to see
> some more verbiage around sei.  "discursive (metalinguistic) bridi"
> doesn't have a lot of meaning by itself; can we expand on it a bit?
> Nothing serious.  Perhaps "Used to express the speaker's state,
> opinion or beliefs about the surrounding sentence(s)."?  (Assuming
> that's right; I never really grokked sei).

This is not good, because sei is also used to show who says what. E.g. "sei la .alis. cusku [...]".

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