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Jorge Llambias scripsit: > la djan cusku di'e > > > > Or is there any difference? > > > >Well, obviously, the first time you eat lichi, you go from being a > >potential > >lichi-eater to an actual lichi-eater. The na'e first time, you don't. > > So you go from nu'o to ca'a. Where does pu'i come into it? A pu'i claim is that at the time (PU) expressed by the rest of the tense, the potential was in a fulfilled status. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part www.ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that www.reutershealth.com cooks with butter. -- David Chessler jcowan@hidden.email