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Re: grammar glitch



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Henry" <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:

> Maybe the problem is with your gloss or expanding of "go vol kom"
> instead.  Or with polysemy of "ke"?  For instance,
> 
> da djan kan.
> must mean:
> S/he knows (how) to read.
> not "s/he knows that s/he reads".

That's true... I hate to lose the simplicity of 'go pinmo dja'.  I'm
inclined to think at this point that it's not really ambiguous.  The
problem is that by analogy with 'go vol dja' it seems to be.  But in
keeping with Mandarinishness... I have to do more thinking.