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| In a message dated 10/15/2002 7:39:15 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@hidden.email writes: << If {du'u} were abolished, are there any cases where it could not> I don't get this one. Even ignoring the questions about what {ka'e} means and whether it can be made to mean possible, {du'u} doesn't seem to have much to do with events. This sounds a lot like a use-mention confusion -- between what refers to something and the something it refers to. In addition, there are impossible propositions, but maybe not impossible events and certainly not impossible possible events. << I am beginning to think that the meaning that I generally express by {lo'e du'u} and that others generally express by {le nu} could/should be expressed by {lo'e ka'e nu} (or sometimes {lo(i) ca'a nu}). >> Ahah! this comes out of some strange use of that strange word {lo'e}, which gets used in all sorets of ways that no one ever bothers to explain. I suppose that fact alone is enough to make this suggestion not only unacceptable but ludicrous. |