Mi desira es- minus gramatika!

Plu Glosa ami-

Yes, MI DESIRA ES FORTI, is ambiguous as far as grammar is = concerned.

Is DESIRA a noun, or is it a verb taking ES as its infinitive? = Is MI the subject, or MI DESIRA the subject?

Ian’s examples

1. Mi desira = es; mi es forti.
2. Mi habe u forti desira.

do clarify things. Xavi’s

‘U = mi desira es forti,’

is also possible but could also mean, “Mine desires t= o be strong.”

Another possibility would be to add NU before the verb:

MI = NU DESIRA ES FORTI.

MI DESIRA NU ES FORTI.

I’m really not worried about t= he grammar here because- as in any natural language- context would make the= grammar- and even more importantly the meaning- clear:

MI ES DEBILI. MI D= ESIRA ES FORTI.

MI DESIRA ES FORTI; ANTI-CO MI ESTE ZERO DESIRA DE FE PA-T= EM.

To further complicate things, Hogben would insist:

I desire to be str= ong. =3D MI DESIRA HABE FORTI.

For some reason, he thought this construc= tion was more logical. He insisted (and this construction is found in some = natural languages):

MI DESIRA ES FORTI. =3D I desire to be strength.

Clea= r as mud? Just use the context, that is, the words around the word, rather = than grammar. Words explain things much more accurately than grammar ever c= an- and you don’t have to be a linguist to use words.

Saluta, _ _ /. /\ = =A0 Gary #