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la latro'a cu cusku di'e
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:16 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de
>     How about:
>
>     zenba [co'a ko'a] lo ka ma kau ni glare kei lo se sumji be li 273
>     [bei lo me ko'a moi]
> Valid but unnecessarily clumsy; you're being forced to describe the
> subtraction when the actual content of the subtraction is essentially
> superfluous. Also, I'd suggest:
> zenba lo ka ce'u kelvo ma kau kei lo se sumji be li 273
> if we were going to use that structure anyway. Let {ni} be weird/vague,
> use {ma kau} and numbers when you have precise things in mind.

You can use {lo ka ce'u ma kau kelvo} in this case, but my suggestion 
was meant to be a general one. There isn't always a selbri you can use 
in place of that kelvo (because not every selbri has a scale/quantity 
place). Also, I prefer {ni} not to be "weird".

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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