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On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:26:34PM -0700, jordi mas wrote:
> 
> > > something along the lines of "xu do me la jordis poi fanva la
> > > abiUORD.", but just without the jordi.
> > 
> > There needs to be *some* sumti after the "me".  
> 
> Thx. OK. As for instance "le prenu". But suppose I
> don't know whether the said translator is a person or
> something else, say an alien or something. What's
> the most generic sumti I could put there? Would "tu"
> work? Or "da" ? Any sumti meaning "person(s) or
> thing(s) or anything else" would work fine.

"da" is most general, then.

-Robin

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