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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:38:30AM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >Right.  Why not use ".i se bau bo" ?
> 
> That would be "with language user ..."?

Yes.

> >> I didn't realise one could do that with "bau".
> >
> >You can do it with any BAI.
> 
> But BAI takes a sumti, whereas the sentence being used as this
> argument could contain a bridi rather than just a sumti.  How
> would "broda ibaubo brode" be treated?  

I have no idea what that transforms to exactly; the BPFK hasn't
gotten that far.  But note that this sort of thing is used all the
time as ".i ri'a bo" and such.

-Robin

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