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On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:37:29AM -0300, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > The sentence I was trying for was something like "You know,
> > you're looking around all interested in stuff, but you don't
> > actually understand anything, so you might as well just sleep".
> > =A0The first bit was something like {za'a do jundi .i ku'i do
> > jimpe no da .i se ki'u bo ...}, and I get stuck on that last
> > bit.
>=20
> "might as well" means "have no reason not to", so you could say
> ".ei no da fanta lo nu do sipna".

What's the {.ei} there for?

-Robin

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