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Re : I'm in a weird mood... :)

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Date:Friday, June 4, 1999, 18:37
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 04/06/99 15:12:51  , vous avez =E9crit :

> Phew! School year over! Feel like I just finished a marathon! > =20 > Now that I have time to work on my latest project (which has actually hel=
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> my attention for several months and gone through many revisions, so I'm > feeling good about it) I'd like a little opinion/advice: > =20 > I'll get to the point: weird moods, at least from my point of view. I lik=
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> 'em. > =20 > indicative (for emphasis): p@ > perceptive (what the speaker perceives): se > illusory (action/quality that appears real but is not): ila > assertive (" " false " "): kwa > metaphoric (happening/existing in a way outside of the indicative): isa > corporate (happening everywhere for everybody, well, within a reasonable > context): fya > primary (first-hand info): hai > secondary (hearsay): ute > intuitive (speaker knows through intuition): yua > hypothetical (speaker knows that statement isn't quite on the money/devil=
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> advocate/sarcasm/etc.): shy@ > (oh, yeah, and good 'ol) imperative: to or t@ in some dialects > =20 > All of these are verbal preparticles with some phonological conditioning > that I haven't worked out yet. Anyway, what d'yall think? Does anyone kno=
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> of any languages (nat or con) that have moods like this?
Japanese has most of them as verbal suffixes. Should I even call
> them moods? Oh yeah, all the names are for lack of a better word; if you > know that real name please tell me. >=20
i pass. =20
> note: @ =3D schwa, pronounced "eh" in standard dialect > =20 > Jennifer Barefoot > =20 > ps. I realize that these are probably all just special cases of the > subjunctive. >=20
Mathias