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On Jan 28, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Jim Henry wrote:
On 1/28/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:But it just occurred to me that a compound like 'tota' might fill the bill, and 'tu' could be used for something more frequent.I reckon "tu" would be about as frequent as the others. It's not as if tceqli requires mandatory articles like French or English -- all of them will be used only when needed/helpful for clarity, and I don't see why "tu" would be helpful less often than the others. "tota" doesn't seem very logical to me, either.
Right on both counts. 'Tu' it is.Some time back, this sort of article was being discussed and it was decided that 'to' meant known to speaker and listener, 'ta' unknown to both, and 'tu', then, known to speaker, but not to listener. Does that make sense?
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