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Re: Verbal system in Itakian

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2000, 12:19
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>You're right. "Source" means that the action "comes from something", but >in >a rather metaphoric way (that's what I wanted to mean: destination and >source are rather metaphoric names, they mustn't be taken for their >spatial >meaning). When you say "I look at the book", the book can be considered >source of my looking (same for "I read the book": the book is not modified >by the action, it's simply the source of the things read). I think that's >quite an interesting trigger :) .
Interesting, what a sublte way to say it :). I like it actually, great work there! ________________________________________________ It's worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance...