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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. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm