Re: A parable

[Nick Nicholas <nicholas@uci.edu>]

cu'u la .evgenis.

>I am confused. Shouldn't it be {jinvi} instead of {pensi}?

>Just a month ago, someone was reprimanded in a similar context.

No. Here, I really do mean {pensi}. That's why I used the progressive in
the English, which forces that interpretation. It's not holding an opinion,
but cogitating.

The parable would still work just as well with {jinvi le du'u}, though.

Nick Nicholas,  TLG, UCI, USA.   nicholas@uci.edu    www.opoudjis.net
"Most Byzantine historians felt they knew enough to use the optatives
 correctly; some of them were right." --- Harry Turtledove.