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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > But also, how about: > > la je ckfa va mlka prfraka'a > I prefer my coffee milky (to not milky) > > Maybe you could even have > la je ckfa va mlka plkaka'a > I like [i.e. prefer] my coffee milky > > if there is some convention that vV coerces a kind of comparative > interpretation of predicates cobound with it. So vV is basically "rather" or "rather than not". Perhaps even in cases like: va'i xmga'i This is rather good. (This is good rather than not good.) ma'a xrxe