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At 03:29 PM 12/31/02 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
la lojbab cusku di'e
> > mi nitcu lo'e tanxe le du'u setca lei vi cukta ty
> > I need a box to put these books in.
>
>mi nitcu fi lenu setca lei vi cukta ce'u poi tanxe (vo'e? depending on what
>it means these days, or maybe ri to avoid the question)
>
>which might back-translate as
>I need that these books be inserted into something which will box them.
>in case I've mangled things unrecognizably.
And what goes in x2 of nitcu? What do you answer to {go'i ma}?
da .a'o, or maybe da da'i(cu'i?)There may in fact be nothing which exists that goes there, but that does not remove your need for it. Why force people to claim a particular value, when I do not know what that value is, or whether it exists.
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