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From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: use of ko'a
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:59:26AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:01:19PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > When I said "you would only use it", I didn't mean "you can never
> > use it in any other way." Unbound ko'a is grammatical, but
> > stylistically I think it's malglico.
>=20
> I disagree.
>=20
>     le mi mamta mamta cu mutce nelci le karce .i ko'a ji'a nelci le
>     ladru
>=20
> I don't see that anyone's going to have much confusion there, and
> since I presumably intend to deliver a bunch more sentences
> involving le mi mamta mamta, it seems a reasonable thing to do.

I agree with robin.

Errr.  The other robin.

Unbound malglico.  Either use my. or le go'i or ra or bind the ko'a.
my. and ra even cost less syllables, so I don't see what argument
there is for the unbound ko'a.

--=20
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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