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Re: [engelang] Xorban Development



On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> But also, how about:
>
> la je ckfa va mlka prfraka'a
> I prefer my coffee milky (to not milky)
>
> Maybe you could even have
> la je ckfa va mlka plkaka'a
> I like [i.e. prefer] my coffee milky
>
> if there is some convention that vV coerces a kind of comparative
> interpretation of predicates cobound with it.

So vV is basically "rather" or "rather than not". Perhaps even in cases like:

va'i xmga'i
This is rather good.
(This is good rather than not good.)

ma'a xrxe