In a message dated 6/13/2001 2:25:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
ragnarok@pobox.com writes:
Of course, we could use the gismu for the attitudinals to some degree: if we
want to say 'I hope that you come' we say 'mi pacna lenu do klama' but if we
want to say 'I am hopeful; you come' we say 'a'o do klama' so that a bridi
with an attitudinal ALWAYS asserts the bridi, if we want to not assert it we
do that with gismu. That's my new proposal, and it's a lot simpler than the
other one. It still isn't perfect - I'm sure .ai would have a meaning, but
since none of us know what it would be we'd stop using it.
Which "I hope that you come" is this? It appears to be the one about my
mental state, not the one about your coming. How do you do the other one?
This proposal now seems to set us back at least to the situation in English
and maybe even worse.
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