Re: Prevli: more "mood" names?

Michael Poxon wrote:
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>I think "going to" as Eldin means it is meant to imply intention.
> Omina, which is an aspect rather than tense language, has a "prospective"
> aspect as well as an "intentive" aspect:
"Prospective" and "intentive" are the names I had thought of, too.

I don't feel that "going to" is necessarily the same as "future tense", in
that "future" to me at least implies a more definite commitment (as does
"intend" vs "going to"). I may be splitting hairs, though it's also true
that "future" can be pretty vague as to commitment in certain contexts--

My sister: You've got to clean up this house!
Me (looking up from computer screen): Don't worry, I'll do it.........

In Prevli, with both realis and irrealis, we can probably handle such
distinctions.........I've decided that these two moods, like most of the
others, will be formed by compounding with a reduced verb form-- mainly
because I want to have full verb forms for independent usage:

--You ought+eat more greens.
--You're right, I ought. (no need to repeat the full ought-eat verb form, et
al.)

Stay tuned; ideas and notes are piling up apace.

BTW, watching the World Series has not been a total distraction-- I've found
that the players' names are a wonderful source of possible words--

/bekat/ bekät
/halid/ halde
/papil/ papel will mean either 'zany, eccentric' or perhaps 'a men's dance'
:-)))
/rami+rez/ rabrez either 'long...' or 'tangled hair'
and so it goes

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