Re: Romula: tense system - request for comments

Raymond Brown wrote:
> The Italians, however, have almost entirely dropped the lot from
> writing as well.
Indeed, only keeping it to distinguish homophones.

> Yes, particularly if you stray into the odd by-ways and find things like a
> preterite in Catalan formed by 'to go' + infinitive. So that we, e.g. :
> vaig trobar un amic = I met a friend
> BUT
> vaig a trobar un amic = I am going to meet a friend    :)
Interesting!  Do any forms of "to go" end in an {a}, if so, how would
_va a_ (or whatever) be distinguished from _va_?

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