Re: Rebellious words!
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 6, 2003, 6:59 |
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 23:11:53 -0500 Estel Telcontar
<estel_telcontar@...> writes:
> |ha| wants to be the be the perfect marker, not the past tense
> marker,
> so that "uti ha tame a" would mean "I have eaten" and not "I ate",
> as it's supposed to.
> I'm trying to decide how much freedom I should give these
> rebellious
> words. I may capitulate and let |noku| mean "some", sonce it's so
> determined. But I really don't want to let |ha| change its
> meaning, since there isn't supposed to BE a perfect marker in Ikanirae
Seru.
> Estel
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Maybe you can have the past tense in Ikanirae Seru be perfect by default?
So any past-tense verb would automatically be perfective, also.
-Stephen (Steg)
"aru."