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transitive verbs

I've been pondering the set of verbs which can be transitive or intransitive in English. Cook, stand, burn, etc. I don't want that in Ceqli, for obvious reasons. Eo has verbs which are intransitive, but are made transitive with igi. Also, it has transitive verbs made intransitive with ighi. That seems a bit messy at first glance. I'm thinking that all these pairs in English should be handled thus: 

tunu - to cook, trans.
betunu - to cook, intrans.
My thinking is that if something is cooking, burning, standing, sitting, whatever, it is at least implied that something caused it to do so, so the be- form is justified. Anybody know of an auxlang where this has been thought out thoroughly? 


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