Re: Origin of potentiality and capabilit...

[Lionel Bonnetier <leo@easynet.fr>]

Jorge cusku di'e

> 2.    ko'a pu nu'o daspo le tumla
>        At that time, there was the capability and unrealized actualization
>        that he wipe the land out.
> 
>  I don't think the second one has the implication that he didn't 
> eventually do so, though. For example, it could be "He could have
> wiped the land out anytime since 1990, but he decided to do it only 
> last week".

Yes indeed. Only the context will determine whether the actualization
occured later. Same for { do pu nu'o se catra le snuti } -we know it never
happened because saying "you" means the said "you" is still there.

-Lionel

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