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On Thursday 17 July 2003 16:46, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Robin Turner wrote:
> > Rob Speer wrote:
> > >>3) Is something like "fa mi fa do broda" grammatical? What would that
> > >> mean?
> > >
> > > It's certainly grammatical. It's also been given a meaning - the same
> > > as "mi e do broda".
> >
> > True - the first "fa" is not necessary, though. The same can be done
> > with any place e.g. "mi klama la paris. fe la .istanbul."  But why use
> > FA when you can use ".e"?
>
> Somehow I think ".e" is not the most useful interpretation that could be
> given such overloading.

I think that the construction is grammatical but does not have a clear 
meaning, like "pa pi pai". If someone says something like that to me, I might 
try to glork what he is trying to say.

phma

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