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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> 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.
It's a heavier weight solution than "mi nitcu lo tanxe". I'd like to hear
some more arguments against it.
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