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Re: Senyecan Verb Idiom I

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 3:54
Charlie wrote:
> >In your various conlangs how do you express the concepts: > >1. to have just > >and > >2. to be about to
And I wrote:
>As for 'be about to'... well, you've just uncovered another gap. Bah. >"More
research is needed". There is invariant _poro_ 'be going to...' but that's not quite the same.> It turns out (on checking the dictionary) that I assigned "be about to" to _poro-poro_ but I don't like that; this thread has got me thinking..........