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Re: [bpfk] Finishing the BPFK sections


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:13 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
Adam Lopresto scripsit:

> Same question for {ca'u} and {ti'a}. "In front of X" can mean "between me
> and X" ("a shadow passed in front of the moon"), or it could mean "in the
> direction that X is facing".

The question here is, which way does the Moon face?  My intuition says that
it faces the Earth, so "in front of the moon" means the same thing under
either interpretation.

I think that "in front of X" always means in the direction in which X is facing, and that objects without natural faces acquire a nonce face such that they are facing the speaker (or at whatever the point of view is). So ca'u/ti'a X are effectively equivalent to zo'i/ze'o X when X doesn't have its own permanent face.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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