two 'be's

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:30:34 -0800 Clint Jackson Baker
<litrex1@...> writes:
> How to use this?  To cover things like the difference
> between:
> I wait tables (to cover the bills), but I'm (really)
> an actor.  ("regular to be" before, but "active to be"
> after.)
> Am I making any sense?  I'm low on sleep.
> Clint
-

Hmm... that's sort of like what my conlang Rokbeigalmki does with its
three present tenses of the verb 'be'.  I don't have words for "waiter"
or "actor" yet, but it would be something like:
*waiter* azá (or even _azóí_), akh *actor* az.

AZÁ is "I" in the present-immediate tense, meaning 'right now'
AZÓÍ is "I" in the present-routine tense, meaning 'in general'
AZ is just plain "I", used in a 'this = that' sentence.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "mew... meep?"

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