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Subject: [lojban] Re: {xu} - question.
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--- Opi Lauma <opi_lauma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> coi
> 
> Is it right that {mi vecnu ti xu ta}, implies
> that {mi
> vecnu zo'e ta} is thru and I just want to know
> what is
> {zo'e}, or more precisely I even have a
> supposition
> about {zo'e}, I think that (it is/may be) {ti}?
> 
> ki'e .i co'o mi'e .opilaumas 
> 
Not by itself.  It would be an appropriate way to
ask whether your guess was right, but it could
equally be the beginning of the discussion, with
no earlier {zo'e} involved.  And of course, if
the answer is "No" (na go'i}, it might because
something else was sold or nothing was or to
someone else or by someone else.  The placement
of {xu} has some pragmatic force, "the
questionable part is here," but not strong enough
to to call it an implication, nmore a suggestion
or first guess.