--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
>
> > Make that FIVE primary verbs. "do" can be created
> by
> > puting the causative prefix on the copula.
> >
> >
> > "do work" is "cause work to be done"
>
> I'd say not. The later could just as well mean
> ordering my underlings to do
> some work.
>
>
> Andreas
unless the causative prefix is explicity defined to
mean the direct or proximate cause of rather than an
indirect cause such as ordering the work done. So I
guess it depends on how narrowly we define "cause".
--gary