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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 02:44:03PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> 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?
No it doesn't:
mi nitcu lenu mi tavla lo mikce ==
mi nitcu lenu da poi mikce zo'u mi tavla da
But, it should be noted that this is an incorrect use of "le" anyway.
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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