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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Robin Turner wrote:

> Rob Speer wrote:
>
> >
> >>3) Is something like "fa mi fa do broda" grammatical? What would that mean?
> >
> >
> > It's certainly grammatical. It's also been given a meaning - the same as
> > "mi e do broda".
>
> True - the first "fa" is not necessary, though. The same can be done
> with any place e.g. "mi klama la paris. fe la .istanbul."  But why use
> FA when you can use ".e"?


Somehow I think ".e" is not the most useful interpretation that could be
given such overloading.



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