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Matt Arnold wrote:

>On 10/4/05, Jessica <j.shewellbrockway@virgin.net> wrote:
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>>Thank you. So it would be 'lenu dunda kei', or to put it in context:
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>>.i mi lenu do dunda mi le mlatu kei cu nelci
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>>'I like (the fact) that you give me the cat.'
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>>Is that right?
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>Pretty close. "le nu" means "the event of" and "le du'u" means "the
>fact that". But what you said works. -epkat
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But if you said 'I like it that you give me the cat,' you would be 
talking about the event rather than the fact, so the error was in my 
English rather than my lojban (.u'i).

Thanks.

fe'omi'e JEsikas.