Re: state of flow in conlang (was Re: Ke'kh - degrees of volition)

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> > -toi    strong subjective experience
> > -pir    strong subjective negative experience
> > -miu    strong subjective positive experience
>
> Interesting!  So I am not the only one...
>
> Am I right in assuming that -toi is neutral with regard to whether the
> experience is positive or negative?
right

>
> > So, with: liu 'beauty' ; jaka 'violence' ; heiduia 'singing'
> >
> > ia liutoi:      I am immersed in a strong subjective experience of beauty.
> > i jakapir:      Suffering a deep subjective immersion in a violent
> >                   experience.
> > i heiduiamiu:   Deeply and blissfully immersed in experiencing the act of
> >                   singing.
>
> What do _ia_ and _i_ mean?  Apprently they are personal pronouns,
> inflected for different cases?
>
They encode evidentuality and mood.  'ia' basically means "I know from
personally experiencing". 'i' basically says that the "truth"-value of the
statement is irrelevant or indeterminate; used for stories or examples,
etc.  Every sentence starts with one of those.  A  few  interesting
subjective ones include :'ahoa' means to "know" on intuitionary evidence,
'mbaha' means that it is an opinion, 'babia' means roughly "it has been
speculated that ..."



a bunamiu,
.yasmin.