| I want to thank you all for starting the writing of my next section on
attitudinals. I know I should have started with the "other-worldlies" to get them out of the way so that the rest would better fall under the generalizations I start with, but I wasa in the midst of the discussion about the cognitives and so it was easier to just carry that on and over. I am less thankful for the "new" problem that you ahve presented about the response use of some of the "other-worldlies." Apparently it, not some of the cases that I imagined as being left over from English, was the ambiguity Lojbab and djan mentioned earlier. I have to admit that I had never considered these cases and can't think of good English examples to guide me -- the lines always seem causal and assertive, not emotive (and so to suggest, for example, a distinction between {pacna le du'u} and {pacna le nu} -- though I am not sure which one is which). I dislike using the preceived truth or lack of the preoposition to disambiguate, since it will disambiugate differnetly then for different people, though I assume it is the speaker's view that strictly determines which is meant. |