Re: Pro-verbs (was: new parts of speech/cases)

On Wed, 1 May 2002 13:13:42 -0400 Shreyas Sampat
<shreyas@...> writes:
> That's cool.
> What's the scope of these proverbs?
> Like, if someone says to you, "Go wash the car, take out the trash,
> walk the
> dog, and make me a sandwich", is it permissible to reply, "Yeah, I
> did",
> meaning "Yeah, I walked the dog, removed the refuse, cleaned the
> car, and made lunch"?
> Or would you have to say "Yeah, I did that, and that, and those
> other things"?
> Shreyas
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Hmm... i never really thought about that, but i think you'd just use the
one instance of "i did", although that would probably get a response of
|dhawa?|  /Da?wa/ "which?";  saying something like |ilu aza.|  "i did
all" would seem to be the way to disambiguate.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "ai ai aide, jogo bonito que eu quiero ver..."