BPFK Section: Quantity sumtcita
wrote:
>
> --- John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> wrote:
> > Arnt Richard Johansen scripsit:
> >
> > > Gee, I see the problem. IIRC that was from
> > actual usage. I'll try to think
> > > up an example that uses it the right way.
> (If
> > *you* could give a good
> > > example, that would be swell.)
> >
> > Alice likes Bob more than Charlie (likes Bob)
> > vs. Alice likes Bob more
> > than (Alice likes) Charlie.
> >
> > > Is it possible/likely that this vagueness
> > could be intentional on the part
> > > of those who added {mau}? (I am especially
> > asking for oldbie input on this
> > > one.)
> >
> > No, we realized there was a problem. It's
> best
> > resolved by not attempting
> > to use semau (and friends) to create bridi
> > places directly, but rather to
> > hook them using ne to the appropriate terbri:
> >
> > la alis. ne semau la tcarlis. nelci la bab.
> > la alis. nelci la bab. ne semau la tcarlis.
> >
> Good; this is the obvious solution — properly
> implemented. But, as I asked before, how do we
> do this in afterthought mode — a fairly
> typical
> situation? Come to that, how do we toss on
> afterthought modifications of any sort?
>
Here the "obvious" solution is to use FA and the
modification wanted. This seems to work with
some forms — sumti: "John went the store — the
short one (John)" {la djan klama le zarci fa le
tordu} — but not with most others, even {po'u
le tordu} the likely intention of the acceptable
form. And certainly not with something like {se
mau} (or even {ne semau}). I suspect there is a
work-around here, short of repeating the original
sumti or its pronoun (though that latter is not
too bad), but it is beyond my knoledge for
fiddling.