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Re: [jboske] la, lai, me

In a message dated 10/16/2002 5:28:52 PM Central Daylight Time, araizen@hidden.email writes:

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Having both 'me' and 'du' is probably redundant, but the relativized
'pe' (I suppose that that's the bridiized 'pe') is better handled with
'me ko'a moi', because it not only allows you to claim the association
between two sumti, but also what the relationship is, if need be.
(Though unfortunately 'meko'amoi' is often called an abomination for
some reason.)

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"is an instance of it first"?  I don't see any connection here with {pe}.    Maybe {me le ko'a moi} (or as close to that as is grammatical), "is an instance of the itth" which makes a sort of sense if we can imagine sets of things ordered (somehow) by whose they are and then pick them out thus. But getting the "it" in seems a difficult thing to do: I can't find a cmavo that converts {k'o'a} or (my favorite) {mi} into something that parses before {moi}.  Event the sumti-to-mex widgets won't quite encompass that one.