Re: "To slurp" in latin, is there such a thing?

Chris Wright wrote:
> "Since I am eating cookies, I currently exist." [...]
> "Since I typically eat cookies, I typically exist.
My conlang can distinguish those two as well:

I wrote:
> Hesyang kada yomayang. [...]
> slurp-1s.AGT thus exist-1s.AGT
Would then turn into:

1) Manga hesyang ... (PRG slurp-1s.AGT)
2) Hesasayang (slurp-HAB-1s.AGT)

Note that the particle "manga" is used to mark both motion on
prepositions (e.g. kong, 'inside (of)'; manga kong, 'into') and
progressive actions, though the latter use is only to emphasize the
ongoing action, it's not as commonly used as the progressive in English.

Carsten

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