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On 6/2/05, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> Nuncusku and nuntigni are, I think, overlapping categories. When I talk to
> you, that is a nuncusku but not a nuntigni; Rubenstein's playing or a
> ballerina's dancing is both (because playing the piano and dancing are ve cusku,
> expressive media). If I were to leap about on my toes on stage, that would
> be a nuntigni but hardly a nuncusku, because I wouldn't express anything by it.

I'm still unclear about what the x2 of cusku is. It is not
the thing expressed, but something by which someone
expresses something, right?

For example:

I express my gratitude with a "thank you".
I express my frustration with a grunt.
The ballerina expresses something with her dance.
Rubenstein expresses something with the Appassionata.

The x2 of cusku is the "thank you", the grunt,
the dance and the Appassionata?

Is the place structure of {cusku} soemthing like
"x1 expresses something with x2 to x3 in medium x4"?

Are all of these correct:

mi cusku zo ki'e
mi cusku lo se cmoni
le dansu cu cusku lo nu dansu
la rubinstein cu cusku la apasionatas

{cusku} does not have a place for the thing expressed,
only for the thing by which one expresses something.

Would that be right?

mu'o mi'e xorxes