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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/2021 9:34 AM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:EE7CEBAC-6EDD-4786-9E53-7A9FBE585B09@mac.com">I suspect
that the problem with all of these attempts is that you are all
trying to expand upon an idiom that is essentially not
grammatical. While you can explain the obvious Sentence As Subject
as a not-slippery-slope idiom that can’t be generalized, you then
proceed to use it with a conditional that isn’t part of the
original idiom, which is essentially an attempt to generalize it
to make it more useful than the restrictions of the original
idiom.</blockquote>
<p>No. The problem with this isn't the apparent sentence as subject.
The problem with it is that the conditional applies to the
hypothetical <b>pu' DIlo',</b> but in the proposed solution <b>pu'
DIlo'</b> is stated as fact. And if you try to make <b>pu'
DIlo'</b> conditional, you're trying to use a conditional as the
first sentence of a sentence as object, something we don't think
is correct. The fact that the <b>'e' qa'</b> construction seems
to employ a sentence as subject is completely irrelevant to the
issue we're seeing.<br>
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