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Re: EXERCISE: Meanings of to be

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 21:00
--- In conlang@y..., Jake X <alwaysawake247@H...> wrote:

Obrenje:


> 1. forming predicate nominative: He IS happy
|Mo-| "be"
> 2. equivalence: Today is Wednesday.
|Mo-| "be". I don't see much of a difference to 1.
> 3. existance: To be, or not to be.
|Firo-| "exist, 'there be'". It seems that I translated "there are" in the conlang relay as |mo-|, so either I'm just too mentally inflexible to be consequent, or the colloquial usage of Obrenje dislikes the formal-sounding |firo-|. =P
> 4. English use, for creating verb forms: He is walking.
That's what we have the liquid aspect for. It's a verb inflection.
> 5. Numerical equivalence: One plus one is two.
That's just a special case of 2. -- Christian Thalmann