Events & sisku [was: le/lo]

[John Cowan <cowan@DRV.CBC.COM>]

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> Yes, perhaps that would be clearer, although I think it would
> be too restrictive to say that nu could only refer to events that
> actually happen.

Indeed.  Events don't have to happen, although it has to be
*logically possible* for them to happen, I think; there is
no "lo nu li re su'i re du li mu".

> I wouldn't know how I would say "I'm looking for my hat"
> with the new definition, if I wore one.

        mi sisku le ka [ce'u] du le mapku po mi
        I look-for-thing-with-property the property-of being
                the hat belonging-to me.

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John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
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