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On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:13 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > I astonish myself with the blunders I turn out to be capable of. > > > > la trca li zdni lu xo gltmrluko smo zmdakiku > > The tree-A, the house-I, being however tall one is-O, A exceeds I as O. > > Where you have "O" in these glosses, I would have had "U". Did you > definitely intend "O"? No, my blunder this time, the gloss should have "U". > More tricky stuff: > > 1. Conditionals. (A mu'ei-type analysis, I'd think.) > 2. Donkey sentences: "Most farmers who own a donkey [are farmers who own a > donkey and] beat it". > 3. Reciprocals of various sorts -- I'll try to dig out some complicated > varieties. > 4. "twelve boys and girls" > > For all of them I can see a way to a solution, but the details need to be > worked out, stuff needs to be invented, 4 seems the easiest: la je nmpda je le nnle mneka le nxle mneka snga Twelve(A) & (boys(E): among(E,A) & girls(E): among(E,A)): sing(A) The twelve boys and girls sing. The others require more thought. mu'o mi'e xorxes