On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:00:41AM -0500, MorphemeAddict wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:55 PM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:
> > Also, how {ba'e} would one utter "She continues sleeping" without {za'o}?
> > {.i ko'a to'e de'a sipna}? Without the "natural end" I would just say
> > {.i ko'a za'o sipna}, which would mean {.i ko'a sipna za'o lo cabnu},
> > as described in the byfy section on {za'o}. But even then, I don't see
> > any reason to call "now" a "natural end" of her sleeping.
>
> If someone sleeps past the natural end (an indefinite point, to be sure),
> you start getting concerned and wondering when he'll way up. What's wrong
> that he's been asleep for so long?
> Just one example.
Ah, one more thing about this usage: Most examples make {za'o broda} look
like something negative. However,
.i u'u mi pu cladu .iku'i ko'a pu za'o sipna
should be fine as well, isn't it? And it's nothing negative to go on sleeping
if someone makes noise.
v4hn
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