Re: [jboske] RE: Llamban

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> It seems to me that the existence and allowance for potential tense (which 
> can be elliptical) requires that one can be a potential novelist who has 
> not actually written any novels, etc. Of the above therefore, only an 
> illiterate reader seems to be impossible, and then only if one assumes that 
> someone illiterate isn't potentially literate.

Quite so. I was speaking in the ca'a tense only.

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