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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Adam Raizen wrote:
> la .and. cusku di'e
>
> > Would {le ni ce'u prami ce'u} mean "the amount of lover--beloved
> > pairings"? That would be much harder to say in some other way.
>
> I suppose it would if 'ni ce'u broda' counts le broda, but that is not a
> concept likely to be used often anyway.
When I asked John Cowan for the canonical example of ni + ce'u, that's
what he offered. Nobody complained at the time. Perhaps you could re-read
this entire thread from the beginning of this subject line, and see what
you disagree with.
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