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Re: [engelang] reformulating the core grammar

Mike S., On 03/10/2012 00:15:

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jorge Llamb�as <jjllambias@hidden.email <mailto: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."


Can you explain kkna'a? Is it short for kkna'ako'e?
--And.