On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:18 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
Works for me. I don't think its position in the sentence has any bearing on how it's interpreted.
Same, I figured this was the least-controversial variation that I posted.
I don't see these as a spectrum, and these suffixes don't express what I thought of the nouns at the time; they tell what I think of them when I say the sentence.
It's interesting that you don't see these suffixes as a spectrum. I thought it was a good example of a spectrum of something like "increasing belief on my part that this thing can or should be described by this noun", from *-qoq* ("obviously not such a thing") to *-na'* ("definitely such a thing"). That's a good point about how they apply at the time of speaking, though. (At first I was going to argue that in the right context they could be taken to mean "what I thought of them at the time", like if they were contrasted with each other in some kind of temporal sequence, but I think that's mostly just because I really liked that example and want to salvage it somehow.)
Same reaction as with the time stamps. *'awje'* (ok) *qa'vIn* (still going?) *wornagh* (wow, all that?!)* DItlhutlhtaH.* But this one really wouldn't make any difference if you conjoined them with *je:* the sense of sequence is not very strong.
This is also the example I liked least.
The concept isn't "sequence"; it's "thing that changes in this sequential way."
That's a good distinction to keep in mind.