Re: [jboske] ta'e/na'o

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

la pycyn cusku di'e

> Tensewise, all we can say about repeated
> events is that the repetition is high density or low in a period, including
> how often it occurs, and, when it is not continuous (or it it continual?)
> whether the occurences fit some pattern we notice or not: {no'a} and 
> whatever
> else is legal here (not {no'a nai}, alas, but maybe {na'e no'e}).

{na'o nai} is not only legal but it actually appears on the cmavo
list as "atypically". You may have checked {no'a}, I never remember
which is which of na'o/no'a.

> And, with reference to cases othere than strict counts, it is important, I
> think to notice the differences between different arrangements of 
> conditions
> with respect connectives and quantifers: "Always when there is a cat
> available, John kicks it" seems rather different from "When there is a cat
> available, John always kicks it" and bi\oth from "John always kicks cats"
> (which is, I think ambiguous between the two).

The first one seems to be:

ro roi ku la djan tikpa ro mlatu poi zvati
Every time, John kicks every cat that is present.

And the second may be:

la djan tikpa ro mlatu poi zvati ro roi ku
John kicks every cat present, every time.

They don't seem to be different, unless there is a difference
in what counts as a "time". But the second one is a weird way
of ordering the events, considering them by cats first instead
of by times.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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