At 03:43 PM 06/14/2001 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> >Am I to understand that ".ui mi klama" can mean "I am going, and I am > >happy about it", and ALSO mean "I would be happy if I went, not asserting > >that I am going"? > > Given some contexts, it might. I might be describing a dream, or telling a > story, or the next sentence might start .ijanai or something else that > removes assertiveness. Wouldn't you appreciate a simple scheme that removed this ambiguity?
No, because I don't want people to have to THINK (i.e. "reason") while they are attitudinally emoting. They should express what they feel at the time they feel it, and the few rules we have for attitudinal expression are really just conventions that attempt to describe the pragmatics that realistically will apply if someone just expresses things naturally.
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