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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@hidden.email> wrote: > > Didn't want to make a new thread for this, and this is about time stuff. > > First of all, what is the shortest way to get the equivalent of "ca lo > nu broda cu brode"? It seems all my solutions end up having cbn- all the > way to the right, which is a monstrous forethought. I assume there is a > more human-readable form than this: > > la fa smo'e le fe smo'e cbnake > > If the formulae before cbnake are very long, this becomes very hard to > track in real-time, not to mention it's not very stylish in literature. I think usually it would be: "la fa smo'e fa smo'e", since it's not so much simultaneity as happening together that is important. > The other question is about numbers that fill places like nanca2. I > don't think > > le fe smo'e la nmpa nnceka > > makes much sense. It means "Some event E, something that is one, such > that E is one thing years long." or something like that. > So how would you say "Event E is one/two years long"? > > la nnca le nmpeka > > seems wrong too. Help? No "le" in front of "nmpeka": le fe smo'e la nnca nmpeka co ma'a xrxe