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Jorge Llambias scripsit:
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> la xod cusku di'e
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> > > la djan cu darxi lo'e nanmu ze'a le jeftu
> > > John has been hitting men all week.
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> Ok. How would you say it without {lo'e}?
What's wrong with "lo"? After all, if I say that Juan has been eating
maize all his life, that doesn't mean it's *typical* maize -- perhaps
all of it is blue, e.g.
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under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
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