This depends significantly on the UI in question, as the BPFK pages on this subject make clear. The most important thing that makes UI truth-functionally relevant is whether an attitudinal is realis or irrealis. {ui} is realis; when you say {broda ui} you still claim {broda} and are saying you're happy about it. {.a'o} is irrealis; when you say {broda .a'o} you don't claim {broda}, you say you hope that {broda} happens without saying whether it does.Note that unlike in the ma'oste, as I recall every UI is explicitly described as realis/irrealis on their BPFK page, perhaps with some exceptions in the form of obviously-realis words like {ui}.mi'e la latro'a mu'oOn Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Ross Ogilvie <ross@rossogilvie.id.au> wrote:
"difficult to imagine" is one assertion
The other one is first asserting that it is being imagined, and then also saying you feeling that the imagining is difficult.No. UI do not assert anything. They merely express the attitude of the speaker. This is why they are called "attitudinals". Their purpose is to easily convey the current emotional mindset of the speaker.
On 13/01/2013 12:48 PM, "Annie" <park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:--what exactly is the difference between difficult to imagine and the imagining being difficult?
Sent from my iPod--It's more about the sentence structure and assertion. When you say "difficult to imagine", the main assertion is about the difficulty. In the sentence {lo si'o ciska lo ro fa'oma'o cu xanri} the main assertion (the selbri) is about imagining (xanri). Adding fu'inai after xanri is like huffing to indicate that you find the imaging is difficult.
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