From jjllambias@hotmail.com Sun Feb 20 07:31:44 2000
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Message-ID: <44114.369.2048.959273826@eGroups.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 07:31:44 PST
From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Re: Subjunctives

la adam cusku di'e

>mi gunka va'o le nu nandu
>le nu nandu cu vanbi le nu mi gunka
>"I work if things are difficult"
>
>and
>
>le nu nandu cu tcini le nu mi gunka
>"I work under difficult conditions"
>
>Of course, tcini doesn't have a BAI cmavo, but I think the BAI is
>more useful for vanbi.

I agree with this interpretation of vanbi/va'o.
It is a good argument that we already have tcini
for the other (less useful) interpretation, but
also there are a lot of gismu that have an intrinsic
"under conditions" place that has to be understood
as hypothetical conditions. I would prefer that
those gismu not have that explicit place though.

co'o mi'e xorxes



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