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Re: BPFK Section: Aspect

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WRT:

da'i le ninmu cu ponse le pano rijno sicni gi'e cirko pa ri i xu ny na
cikygau lo tergu'i gi'e lumci lo zdani gi'e junri sisku co'u lo nu facki

Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not
light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

Two things:

1. You don't "awaken" a lamp in my universe. I read that as "become concious of the light". Not sure what goes there, but please not cikygau.

2. It seems to me that that doesn't fit the current definition of co'u. It certainly doesn't fit my understanding of it. The current definition says "at the ending point of". It seems to me that that means that "broda co'u le nu brode" is "broda occurs at the ending point of le nu brode" or maybe "at the same time as the ending of le nu brode".

This is not a criticism per se, since your definitions are more consistent with the rest of za'o, I just wanted to make sure it was pointed out and if I'm right and this does constitute a change, it is clearly marked as such.

-Robin