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And Rosta wrote:

>xorxes:
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>
>>36. Cicero is Tully
>>
>>    la kikeros cu du la tulis
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>

Thank you for not translating it as la siseros.

>Given the ragbag and decontextualized nature of the test sentence
>collection, the translation is reasonable, but as you are aware,
>it completely sidesteps the issues that make (36) a challenging
>test sentence in the first place. Change it to, say, "John
>does not believe that Cicero is Tully", and the challenge becomes
>more apparent. (The solution is to have brivla for "Cicero"
>and "Tully" & then it all works out hunkydory.)
>  
>

Why? Because we're using "me"?


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