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Re: [txeqli] Nailed Down

Title: Re: [txeqli] Nailed Down
on 3/7/02 8:41 PM, Ray Bergmann at rayber@hidden.email wrote:

Rex:->>
Neniu Bu No
Neniu Bupe Nobody
I think you have to distinguish between "budiq/neajo/not a thing" and "butendiq/nenio/nulo/no thing" in the sense of "keine Sache".  "Bupe" means "no person" either in the sense of "not a person" or in the sense of "negative of a person" (whatever that means!)  "No person/nobody/noone" in the sense of "absence of a person" would be "NOT HAVE PERSON / NOT HAVE ONE": butenpe/butenvo!

You could be right.  If so, how about zoype instead of bupe?
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