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Reply-To:     Paulo Barreto <pbarreto@UNISYS.COM.BR>
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From:         Paulo Barreto <pbarreto@UNISYS.COM.BR>
Subject:      ambiguity?
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Cc:         John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>,
              Jorge Llambias <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
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Status: R


Consider these two phrases:

1. la noi melbi kris.
2. la noiMELbikris.

Note that "noiMELbikris." is a simple cmene in 2.

I claim it is impossible to distinguish between them in
spoken language.  Could anybody provide a refutation?
(If not, relative clauses after selma'o LA introduce an
ambiguity in Lojban and should be revised).

co'o mi'e paulos.