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Re: [engelang] Xorban Development



On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:13 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> 2. Donkey sentences: "Most farmers who own a donkey [are farmers who own a
> donkey and] beat it".

This one you won't like for a couple of reasons:

 la je frmra le xsle pnsake li mjrtika drxike

but that's how I would say it.

> 3. Reciprocals of various sorts -- I'll try to dig out some complicated
> varieties.

I wonder if something like this would work:

la nnla le drxeke smxake
The boys -A, the ones who hit themselves -E, A are mutually (as
opposed to individually) E.
The boys hit one another.

mu'o mi'e xorxes