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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:06:55PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:56:54PM +0300, Aleksej R. Serdyukov
> wrote:
> > 
> > coi ro do
> > 
> > (I am ill now, so excuse me if I write some gibberish or act
> > stupid)
> > 
> > "ti     [cu]    cmalu   nanla   ckule   [vau]
> > This            is-a small-     boys    school.
> > This is a school for small boys."
> > 
> > How do I know that this is not:
> >
> > This-thing is-small in-dimension-"boy" as-compared-with-standard
> > "school"
> >
> > , e.g., "Boy of this thing is small by standard "school""
> > ?
> 
> You don't; tanru are fuzzy.  All you know is that it's a school,
> and it has something to do with boys that have something to do
> with small-ness.  tanru group to the right by default, 

Erm.  The *other* right.  The one called left.  :-)

Sorry.

-Robin

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