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Subject: [lojban] Re: as far as anyone knows
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:16:21PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> How do you say "as far as I know" or "as far as anyone knows"? The
> example is "Basque is not related to any other language as far as
> anyone knows", {lo skalduna bangu na ckini lo drata bangu [li'o]}.
> I'm not sure whether to use {du'o} or an evidential.

I would use {du'o ro remna} or similar.

-Robin

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