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Re: [jboske] Gadri for you



On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:

>
> la pier cusku di'e
>
> > > I don't understand why any of these new words are needed. The only kind of
> > > article I see necessary is one for sequences, since we have a conjunction
> > > that makes sequences.
>
> I think an article corresponding to {fa'u} would be even more useful.
> I have often found I needed one.


How would it work?



>
> la xod cusku di'e
>
> > This is the rebirth of a discussion that raged here months ago, and now
> > all the principals (Nick, Jorge, And Rosta) are mysteriously silent. For
> > background, I suggest you take a look at the past 200 archived messages.
>
> I don't object to your suggestion. In the case of {lo'e} it would suit
> my usage very well, because it would officialize {lo'e} for unique, and
> the other allowed meanings are never used anyway, so they wouldn't
> really interfere. In the case of {loi} I'm not so sure. I have not felt
> much need for a substance gadri, but I see it could have some uses.


Is unique = prototype? Is unique = Mister? Or "typical"? I'm not sure
which other meanings are fused inside lo'e. But no one can or should deny
the your historical usage of lo'e.



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