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I thought the subjunctive referred to hypothetical worlds.
Well, it does involve hypothetical worlds. When you say "whatever it costs" you bring into consideration a whole range of hypothetical worlds, the real one included among them.
"costs what it costs" is a tautology, carrying no logical content about the price, but rather indicating emphasis. Classic application for modal selbri: fi'o jdima fe'u vecnu ta mi
Something like "with-price I buy it"? If we just want to emphasize
that there is a price, why not {vecnu ta mi ba'e da}?
And of course, the ckinytadji way: fancu lo velvecnu le jei mi tervecnu kei nodada'o (My buying of it is orthogonal to its price)
But that doesn't say that I buy it. Eventually it might mean that whether I buy it or not does not depend on what the price is. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com