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Re: [jboske] more on shortening romu'ei stuff




la djorden cusku di'e


I can give you a distinction between kakne and cumki:
	cumki fa lenu mi zatfa'i la barda jamfu
	kakne lenu mi zatfa'i la barda jamfu
The first is true, the latter false.

Could you elaborate? How can it be possible that you find him if he is not capable of being found? Is it because with {kakne} the event has to be somehow up to you, or up to Big Foot, and neither of you is up to it, whereas with {cumki} it is left up to chance? The only thing {kakne} seems to add is that it can select one of the participants in the relationship and somehow peg the possibility to it. But {ka'e} can't do that.

I think anything which is
true for kakne is true for cumki, but not the other way around.

That may very well be the case, but the difference as far as I can see can only come from the fact that something which is cumki may be not related by kakne to any of its participants. But {ka'e} does not access any participant the way {kakne} does.

I
would think cumki corresponds to one kind of su'omu'ei, and kakne
to another kind of su'omu'ei (similarly, nibli corresponds to one
kind of romu'ei, and nitcu or bilga correspond to another kind of
romu'ei).

Well, {nitcu} and {bilga} raise the same issues as {kakne}, they involve some participant in particular, something that {romu'ei} cannot do.

I can see the paraphrases:

broda su'omu'ei ko'a <--> le nu broda cu cumki ko'a
broda romu'ei ko'a <--> le nu broda cu sarcu ko'a

even though they are probably not strict equivalences.
But kakne/nitcu/bilga involve something else rather
different.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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