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Re: [engelang] reformulating the core grammar

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@hidden.email> wrote:

I think my preferred reading into
"sa bbbe ccci" would be something like: "sa fa bbbe fa ccci", "there's
a state of affairs in which bbbe is the case, in which ccci is the
case".

co ma'a xrxe

That's a bit more complicated and much more specific than [je psa], but it may end up being much more useful.  That way we could say,

lu [fu] kkna'a [fu] le ckle ctka'ake.
"When I can, I eat chocolate."

It's more complicated because when [u] is in the arg then inserting [fu] would be a clear mistake.

lu [fu] le ckle ctka'ake la mlta vskaku
*lu [fu] le ckle ctka'ake [fu] la mlta vskaku

... whereas (I think) it'd always be safe (though usually pointless) to insert [je psa].

la [je psa] mlta [je psa] xkra

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co ma'a mke

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