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On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 06:20:02PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > la nitcion cusku di'e
> [...]
> > >After all (as I found in CLL to my
> > >delight), prenexes by default go to the innermost, not the outermost
> > >bridi --- so the default interpretation of {mi nitcu lenu mi tavla lo
> > >mikce} *is* "I want to talk to a doctor, any doctor", not "there's this
> > >particular doctor I want to talk to".
> >
> > Yes, and you can say {mi nitcu tu'a lo mikce} for short. If you are
> > satisfied with that, you don't have a problem to solve.
>
> Ok, good point. So this issue isn't really an issue afterall.
"mi nitcu lenu mi tavla lo mikce" becomes "da poi mikce zo'u mi nitcu le
nu mi tavla da". What other way is there to render it?
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