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On 5/15/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:31:46PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > Examples of pu'e Usage
> > >
> > > mi finti lo lisri pu'e lo nu ciska ro da poi mi pensi
> > > "I invent stories by writing down whatever I think of."
> >
> > It seems to me that if pu'e tags a pruce, the main bridi will
> > describe the input, the output or the stages of the process. Or
> > are the main bridi and the tagged sumti identified as the same
> > process?
>
> You have this strange belief that if one uses a BAI tag, one is
> automatically relegating the main bridi to a place in whatever the
> underlying selbri of the BAI tag is. I simply don't agree.

I don't have that belief (indeed in many cases the underlying selbri
of the BAI does not have an available place for the main bridi). I do
believe that when the underlying selbri does have such a place, it
provides the most natural interpretation for the BAI tag.

In any case, in this example, why is {lo nu ciska ro da poi mi pensi}
a process, and is {pu'e} being used as just a variant of {ta'i}?

mu'o mi'e xorxes