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Re: [ceqli] Modals



on 4/3/04 3:05 PM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote:

> on 4/3/04 1:37 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote:
> 
>> Rex, how are you handling modals: 'I ought to do...', 'I would
>> do...', 'I would rather not do...', 'I could do...'? Similar to
>> auxiliary verbs? ---K
>> 
> I haven't done a whole lot of thinking about this in general. What we have
> so far:
> 
> dwa = must
> vol = want
> fo = need
> ker = like
> pluker = rather, prefer
> fey = can, be able
> 

Oh, and "zol" for should or ought to, from German sollen.
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