Re: [bpfk-announce] Re: Current checkpoint

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:30:10PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen
wrote:
> 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 [...]".

I'm not sure how that's different; the author is expressing an
opinion about what was said.

-Robin

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