On Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:40:49 AM UTC-4, v4hn wrote:
You didn't read on.
However, ``ke'a'' can be omitted if it is clear to the listener that it belongs in some place other than x1:
1.8) tu poi le mlatu pu lacpu cu ratcu
That-distant-thing which the cat drags is-a-rat
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That's my point about the ambiguity. Either it fills x1 or or it fills the next available sumiti. There needs to be no "presumption" or "if it is clear to the listener". I may have interpreted that sentence differently than you too. To me it read that one could presume it was in *any* slot other x1 if it made contextual sense to the listener. e.g. if x3 was "clear to the listener" they'd could choose that one too. As opposed to the interpretation that it meant the "next available slot". Eliminating that ambiguity was my point of bringing this up.
Personally I think it makes more sense for it just to always be x1 b/c it is easy enough to add `se` or `te` as needed, and I think if fits the intent of NOI better. Consider I want to say "Tom who was a traveler to Baltimore."
.tom. poi la .baltimor. pu klama
.trans.