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On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:06 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > Jorge Llambías, On 02/09/2012 01:29: > > > > 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. > > It's good! (Remind me why I wouldn't like it?) > > Ah, okay. I see a couple of reasons. > > One is that it doesn't distinguish between each farmer beating just their > own donkey or beating every farmer's donkeys (among various other > distinctions not made). Right, it really just says "most donkey owning farmers are donkey beaters. The second reason was that it uses the implicit binding rule that you don't like to bind the final "e". > Another is that I can't work out how to say "If anybody sees anything, > they'll probably eat it". Well, it can be done as: > > la fa sa prna si smi vskake li fi sa prna si vskaki ctkaki lknaki > > -- but with a load of repetition. Basically in asking about donkey > sentences I was looking for something that gets rid of the repetition. Why was it that this one didn't work: ra prna re sme ja na vskake li fi ctkake lkni ? mu'o mi'e xorxes