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Scot to me:
> >I don't think {broda brode} entails {brode}.
> I'm with you that {broda brode} need not entail {brode}

Goran [kie doi xorvo] refers me to the following refgrammar stuff,
which can be read as indicating that {broda brode} does entail
{brode}.

| In general, however, the meaning of a tanru is determined by the
| literal meaning of its components, and not by any connotations or
| figurative meanings (sutra tavla - "fast-talker" thus would not
| necessarily imply any trickery or deception, and a "jikca toldi"
| - "social butterfly" must always an insect with large
| brightly-colored wings, of the family lepidoptera).

coo, mie and