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Wiki page BPFK Section: Grammatical Pro-sumti changed

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:09:08PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> > lo ka ce'u goi ko'a go'i ko'e zo'u ko'a prami ko'e — The property
> > of something loving itself; only one variable.
>
> Whyever not just:
>
> lo ka ce'u goi ko'a zo'u ko'a prami ko'a

That would be fine, sure. I honestly couldn't think of a use for three
of the same variable, though, so I cheated.

> > > > mi tugni le se cusku po la bab. zi'o po'u lu zgana le cnino
> > > > cmima nuncansu gi'ebabo stidi le cnino javni li'u
> > > >
> > > > *BOGGLE*. WTF does "zi'o po'u" mean?
> > >
> > > Probably {zi'e} was intended.
> >
> > Oh, duh.
>
> Or even the old meaning of {zi'o}. Now that I remember, there used to
> be a whole series zi'a, zi'e, zi'i, zi'o, zi'u, one for each logical
> connector type.

It's not old enough.

-Robin

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