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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:17:36PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote:
> > > > > (Any usage which does is incorrect, and should probably be using
> > > > > ti/ta/tu). The difference between da and ko'a is the same as between le
> > > > > and lo
> > > >
> > > > See chapter 7;3 to see why ti is unusable
> > >
> > > I don't see what you're complaining about...
> >
> > Without checking the book, I am guessing that the objection to your
> > use of ti is based on mabla anti-malglico tradition -- in this
> > instance, the notion that ti with a textual referent is insufficiently
> > deictic.
>
> Book says explicitly that ti is only used for finger pointables; I need
> something abstract.
Not sure what you mean by "something abstract". But it's usable
for anything which has distance from the speaker (conceptually).
The book goes out of its way to say that you don't need to be
face-to-face for this to work. All the "finger pointing" stuff is
just a metaphor.
--
Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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