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Re: Re: Re: [jboske] The ugly head of ni



de'i li 2002-11-07 ti'u li 13:51:00 la'o zoi. Invent Yourself .zoi cusku di'e

>On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Adam Raizen wrote:
[li'o]
>> I repeat my objection to using special syntax to count
>> things, and repeat my examples of how you can count things without ni+ce'u.
>
>
>Take it up with John Cowan. But I do find ni+ce'u to be more intuitive
>than BAI and similar hacks.

There are some hacks you can do with BAI and such, but what I was
actually referring to was to use the normal method to refer to something
in a relationship with something else: use a selbri like 'se klani' or 'te
kancu'

mu'o mi'e .adam.