quality-ka

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la pycyn cusku di'e

> As for
> {ka} with all its places filled (which was only touched on in the last
> go-round), nothing requires (or even suggests) that the properties 
> described
> in that usage be subjective: earth shaking, for example, is clearly
> objective-- everyone can see it, instruments can record it, and so on.

I'm trying to get a grip on this quality-ka concept and how to
use it. If I understand correctly, the idea here is that:

le nu la godziras cu cadzu cu ckaji le du'u ce'u tumla se desku
Godzilla's walking has the property of being earth-shaking.

Which is just a fancy way of saying:

le nu la godziras cu cadzu cu tumla se desku
Godzilla's walking is earth-shaking.

Now, how does {le ka la godziras cu cadzu}, with quality-ka, enter
into this? Perhaps we can say that some other event has "the quality
of Godzilla's walking", meaning that the other event is earth-shaking
too. But that would be something like:

le nu co'e cu dunli le nu la godziras cu cadzu kei [le du'u ce'u
tumla se desku]

(Or {simsa} instead of {dunli}.) Or we could just say:

co'e du'i le nu la godziras cu cadzu

(Or {co'e tai le nu la godziras cu cadzu}.)

So, when would we use the quality-ka? And how is it defined
in terms of {le nu la godziras cu cadzu} and {le du'u ce'u
tumla se desku}?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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