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On 6/27/05, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Are you saying that {po'o} means "only relevant
> case" and {po'o sai} means "only case period"?

Not necessarily, just more emphatic. Something like
"the only" and "the very only", if that were possible in
English.

But don't worry if it makes no sense to you. I have never
used it or seen it used and I don't really see much point
in trying to explain further if it's not immediately obvious.

> Still, the notion of adding an extreme case is
> very different from almost any other use of
> {sai}, so, even if this makes sense here,

{ji'a} takes care of the additional case bit. {sai} just
adds the extremeness part, which is what {sai}
normally does.

> > > As noted, I have no objection to the usage,
> > just
> > > to the presentation that suggests (and is
> > > apparently intended) that the given
> > > interpretation comes from the interpretation
> > of
> > > the components in some regular way.
> >
> > Ok, noted.
>
> It would be nice if it were acted upon as well,
> and retroactively to some earlier cases.

I note what your objection is, but since I don't share it, I'm not
sure what kind of action you expect.

mu'o mi'e xorxes