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From: "James 'Twey' Kay" <twey@twey.co.uk>
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Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: What would happen if xu and ko were put together?
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la .lindar. pu ciska zoi gy.

> However, regarding xu and ko? It sounds like an awkward   
> post-jbogugde polite-ism to sound like the English "Could you please  
>  ______?". I don't see that it's necessarily -incorrect- as  
> everybody  wants to seem to assert, but it's certainly a very  
> strange thing to  say. To take it to extremes to demonstrate how  
> strange it sounds to  me, I use this (poor) example: "Go get me a  
> pop. Y/N?"

.gy.

I would interpret it to mean ‘I order you to <do something>; will you  
do it?’  Remembering that tense is not implied, the whole bridi could  
quite well be in the future.  The overall effect could be something  
like the English ‘I want you to go to the shops, do you understand?’

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Twey