another cross-post

[qiihoskeh]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:19:05 -0400, Jeffrey S. Jones
<qiihoskeh@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've finally gotten a whole sentence written in P2 (P1), albeit
> with temporary vocabulary.
>
> polibrap tikva damany kyec.
>[po.Lib.RAp ts\)Ik.vA dA.mAJ cES]
>"A woman gave a child a book (I saw)." ("I saw" is evidential here.)
> po=libr-ap tik-va dama-ny ky-ec
>*pu= libru--apu tik--va dama-ni ki-esi
> Dcl= book--give child--Rcp woman--Don k--see

and unfortunately ::(( wrong. |kyec| should be |tec kir|; otherwise, I'm the
one seen. Probably having both |tec| indicating visual evidence and |kir|
denoting k-person is unnecessary.

same for the one below.

> "Dcl=" = declarative and makes "k" 1st person singular; otherwise it
> would be 2nd person singular, as in
>
> jelibrap tikva damany kyec.
> "Did a woman give a child a book (in your seeing)?"

Here's another one one hopes is better:

je-kiny zaomo, damec kir?
[ZE.cIJ zao.mo dA.mES cIR]
"Did you say youi saw a woman?"
je=ki-ny za-omo, dam-ec ki-r?
*ze= ki-ni za-uma, dama-esi ki-ru
Int= k-Don Cat-say, woman-see k-Beh