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Subject: [lojban] te ta'i
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I'm working on BAI for the BPFK, and came up with the following
example for {te ta'i}:

mi sevzi lumci te ta'i lo nu mi to'e jinsa

''I wash myself, this being sensible in the case that I am dirty.''

I think it's pretty elegant and, more interestingly, it's a very
good exmaple of the English being longer than the Lojban (which is
always something I have trouble coming up with good examples for).

-Robin

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