scottmtc@libero.it:
I've been studying modals and I was wondering how you could say things like "I did this for obvious reasons". The best translation I can think of is *mi pu co'e mu'i tu'a lo li'armi mukti*, but I don't find this very convincing since *tu'a [sumti]* = *lo nu/su'u [sumti] co'e*, and I don't know what that co'e could be in this case.
(Welcome to the list!)I think I would say {mi pu co'e mu'i lo jai li'armi}, where {lo jai li'armi} is implicitly {lo mukti poi lo du'u mi pu co'e mu'i ke'a cu li'armi} - "motivations which are such that it's obvious that they are the motivations for doing co'e", in short "obvious motivations".
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