--- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy:
> > |uoló té ésse| 'i want to eat you'
> > |uoló ut [tú] édás| 'i want you to eat'
> >
> > apperently some clauses usually expressed with |ut| +
> > subj can in poetry take an infinitive, but the
> > examples they give are verbs like 'urge' which would
> > rule out having the same subject for both. furthermore
> > the subject of the infinitive doesn't seem to be
> > expressed
>
> OK... I guess I'll just stick to the |ud| construction
> in the general case, then.
Either that, or leave the ambiguity (after all Jovian is not a loglang). Or
solve the matter with word order prescriptions like English does ("I want to
eat you" vs. "I want you to eat"). FWIW.
> PS: I just found the coolest Latin word in my dictionary...
> |dênâsâre| "to remove the nose of". ;-) I had to import it
> into Jovian right away.
Cool indeed. I'll adopt it into Wenedyk too: |dzienazar| "to begin" (trans.)
Jan
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