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> > If a morpheme each were added to the bare modal classifiers to render > the current meanings of "be" and "du", then "be" and "du" would be > available to form words with a general epistemic or deontic meaning, > something along the lines of "I make an impersonal judgment of a > REAL/HYPOTHETICAL situation that ...", or they could be general terms > covering any or all of the corresponding specific modals. > This seems kind of useless to me. Do you know of any natural language that has equivalent modalities? > > Re #2: Are there any negative degrees? I've seen only 0-100%. > Is there a need for them? What would they mean? Keep in mind that I'm not trying to create a language that will allow you to do things that you can't do in natural languages. Leave that to the loglans. My only interest is in designing a good MT interlingua. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.srv.net/~ram http://www.eskimo.com/~ram