When I say "so many other constructs" I'm referring to the fact that most things (in my mind) are "take the following X and make it a Y". E.g. "lo", "me", "zo", "nu", etc...
And for me it's mostly only hard with discursives. I tend to want to say "mi ru'a djuno" instead of "mi djuno ru'a".
But that could be just me. I think in general I just prefer forethought everything (except gi'e apparently. I love being lazy and tacking a tail on at the end of a bridi)
Like, it feels weird to be reading something and then go "oops, there's a UI, go back and read that last word again but read it with a more 'hopeful' voice"
On Jul 10, 2011 3:19 PM, "Robin Lee Powell" <
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 02:44:58PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
>> Does anyone know why the decision was made to make UI modify the
>> preceding word instead of the followimg word like so many other
>> constructs do? Seems like if UI did that then the problem could
>> be solved by doing "doi alyn xuku do klama"
>
> As far as I know *only* ba'e works like that; what do you mean by
> "so many other constructs"?
>
> As for why it was done that way, I have absolutely no idea, ask Bob.
> :)
>
> For me it seems *far* more natural in almost all cases. Most
> attitudinals (.ui, .u'u, .e'e, etc) are afterthought to me. I only
> have trouble with {xu} these days, I think? I used to have trouble
> with {po'o}, but only because in *English* I say "I have only one
> book".
>
> -Robin
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