George Boeree | Re: [LFN] Tempos de Verbos

• Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] Tempos de Verbos
• Data: 2005-05-04 22:48
• Mesaje: 1141 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

It means "I have been speaking," but does not indicate whether you have
stopped or not.  Me parla ja means "I have spoken" and therefore
stopped.

But I should make it clear, I think, that these complexities of
expression are only when we want to make things very clear, and should
be used sparingly.

If someone interrupts me, for example, in English I might say "I am
speaking" to indicate that I am in the process and you are
interrupting.   In LFN, it would be quite appropriate to just say  "I
speak," the fuller meaning being easily understood from context.

LFN, like creoles, pidgins, and (since we brought it up) Chinese, is
heavily contextual and semantics-driven.  This is appropriate, I
believe, for an IAL.

Best wishes,

George

On May 4, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Nicholas Hempshall wrote:

> > Me es parlante ja
>
>  How do you decide whether this should mean
>
>  "I've started speaking" or "I've stopped speaking"?
>
>  Nick
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