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Wiki page BPFK Section: Causation sumtcita changed by rlpowell

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> On 6/9/05, John E Clifford
> <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > But now how do we express an emotion or
> > the like, not a meaning (or is "meaning" in
> > {smuni} fairly broad?)
>
> lo nu ko'a gleki cu smuni lo nu ko'a cisma
> "Ko'a's happiness is the meaning of ko'a's
> smiling."
>
> la djan smusku lo nu gleki kei mi'a lo nu cisma
> "John expresses his happiness to us by 'saying'
> a smile."
Okay, then. And do {ko'a smusku le du'u ko'a
gleki kei mi'a lo nu cisma} or {... mia lo nu
bacru li mi gleki li'u} also work?