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And Rosta scripsit: > > If {du'u} were abolished, are there any cases where it could not > be replaced by {ka'e nu}, assuming an appropriate tweaking of > the semantics of sumti places that take a du'u sumti (e.g. > "true" being reconstrued as "is actual", is "ca'a nu")? I think that a nu-abstraction, with whatever potential tense, is extremely weird for "du'u li re su'i re du li vo -- Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and that women only want them for their money. http://www.reutershealth.com --Susan McCarthy (adapted) jcowan@hidden.email