From grey.havens@earthling.net Mon Jul 17 04:30:05 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28039 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2000 11:30:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Jul 2000 11:30:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO postfix3.free.fr) (212.27.32.22) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2000 11:30:03 -0000 Received: from tam.n (marseille2-1-60-95.dial.proxad.net [212.27.60.95]) by postfix3.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D20F86BA9 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:30:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:29:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: elrond@tam.n To: Lojban List Subject: modals and makau Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Elrond Hello, after thinking about modals, selma'o BAI, jai and fi'o, I feel like some constructs based on these could nicely replace several "du'u makau" cases. However, just to be sure, I'd like to know if there are any differences in semantics between mi djuno le du'u ciska bau makau and mi djuno le jai bau ciska or, between mi djuno le du'u cadzu fi'o pluta makau and mi djuno le jai fi'o pluta fe'u cadzu Leaving aside the case of multiple questions, is there any obvious case where a single "makau" could not be converted into a description involving modal conversions (jai) ? co'o mi'e rafael