[jbovlaste] Re: Proposed lujvo

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

> 
> In addition, "optimistic" and "pessimistic" are incurably ambiguous
> in English.  "I'm optimistic about Obama's second term" can mean that
> you hope he has one, or that you hope the event of his having one is a
> good thing.

I don't think so.  It's the use of linguistic short cuts or perhaps sloppiness 
that makes the above statement ambiguous.  Written properly, it could be 
either:

"I'm optimistic about Obama's being voted in for a second term" or 
"I'm optimistic about Obama having a successful second term".  In both 
cases "optimistic' means the same thing.

totus