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Re: [jboske] la, lai, me

In a message dated 10/15/2002 8:52:24 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hidden.email writes:

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>   {ko'a me la brod}
>
>must mean
>
>   {ro da poi ke'a cmima lai/la'i brod zo'u ko'a me da}

According to CLL it would mean:

     su'o da poi ke'a cmima lai/la'i brod zo'u ko'a me da

The example in CLL is:

    la BALtazar cu me le ci nolraitru
    Balthazar is one of the three kings.

>>
Why repeat that strange {me} in the explanation?  Surely just {du} does it.