BPFK Section: Epistemology sumtcita
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:36:59PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 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,
Umm, why wouldn't it be?
> and is {pu'e} being used as just a variant of {ta'i}?
Yes.
-Robin
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