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From: Chris Bogart <cbogart@quetzal.com>
Subject:      Suggestions?
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I need a couple suggestions for something I'm trying to translate:

1) How do you say "seven years ago"?  I can do it awkwardly with "temci"
(something like: ca le se temci be le zemei nanca bei le cabdei) but I can't
think of anything simpler.  I don't like "pu le zemei nanca" because it
means 'before seven years', but it doesn't say *which* seven years, so it
doesn't seem logically correct.

2) I need a good tanru for "envy".  "Fengu djica" is close...

ki'e mi'e kris

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