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On Apr 5, 2005 8:47 AM, opi_lauma <opi_lauma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > ta blabi xirma
> > That's a white horse.
> >
> > That's unlikely to be interpreted as {lo nu ta xirma cu blabi}.
> 
> Why not? If I say {lo nu la tam tavla la meris} I see the following
> picture "Two persons, Tom and Marry, and the first person tells
> something to the second person", then I use this picture as a sumti.
> In the same way, if I say {lo nu ta xirma} I have in mind picture of
> horse, and then this picture can be used as sumti in a sentence, to
> say, for example, that it (sumti) is white.

I would prefer {lo nu ta xirma cu nu blabi}, "the event of that
thing being a horse is an event of (something) being white".

Another case:

la djan ba finpe kalte
John will fish hunt.

That's definitely not {lo nu la djan ba kalte cu finpe}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes