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? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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Glosses provided mostly for the viewers at home:

- avanlíta (NEG-release-2.SG.LIQ) -> avanlísa (NEG-release-1.SG.LIQ); a clear case of -ita from Sarasí seeping back in
- Same on the next line; woisíta -> woisísa (to know)
- iféwoisòra (want-know-2.SG.AOR) -> iféwoisáse (want-know-1.SG.PRS)
- zhí'tshíta (again-believe-2.SG.LIQ) ... I feel like we talked about this, but this may be better as AOR, particularly since the line will establish a tense if you make the above change.
- "sarha ... ônethanré" (1-F.SG.ACC ... OBJ2DEST-say-2.SG.IMP) would be much better as "salla ... ethanré" (using a dative and the bare verb); forcing ônethé is unnecessarily literal anglomimickry
- "kekhírha avá" (end-SG.F.ACC NEG-be-3.SG.PRS) should be supernatural, should use the nominative case for statements of being (unless the being is an experience being emphasized, the definition—but that's only for animates), and makes an iffy indefinite use of an unspecified referent to mimic English's widespread abuse of "it". I've always avoided doing this as much as possible in Lilitika, because I've never had a chance to actually study how generic statements like "it's raining" work in various languages other than French (il pleut) and English. I'd probably be more comfortable with a more complete statement like "kekhía ola avá" - "this is not the end."

(more soon.)