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Re: [ceqli] cause



On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:49:38PM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> Go kaw zi dormho.   I cause you sleep-become.
> Go siq kaw zi dormho.   That I sing causes you to go to sleep.
> Zi dormho bekaw go siq.  You go to sleep because I sing.

Even without Lojbanesque abstractions, I think it's important to have
the separator word suggested earlier on, 'ke', roughly serving the
purpose of 'that'. Otherwise you just have a mess of nouns and verbs.

Go kaw ke zi dormho. I cause that you sleep-become.
-- 
Rob Speer