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From: Martin Bays <jboste@zugzwang.port5.com>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: "act so that" without ko?
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* Friday, 2004-10-29 at 12:08 +0200 - Martin Norb?ck <martin@norpan.org>:

> 
> I have always thought that the "ko" construct is a bit of a kludge. What
> especially bugged me was the example in CLL "ko ko kurji". Why replace
> both "do" with "ko"?
> 
> To me, it would seem better just to have a cmavo that works like "xu",
> meaning "act so that the following bridi will be true".

You can pretty much use {doi ko} like that, I believe.

So the original sentence would be {doi ko mi klama}.