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On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:52:49 ianek wrote:
> I've come up with {ro da poi se valsi lo lerfu se pamoi be me'o ny},
> assuming {me'o} is the way to talk about letters. This also assumes
> that words are sequences of letters, which may be far-fetched. And
> also that valsi2 are things named by words, eg. {lo plise ku se valsi
> zo plise}.

Sounds good. Words are sequences of letters, but they are more than that: 
"lobmau" and "jbozma" are the same word, but not the same sequence of letters.

Pierre
-- 
loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji

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