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From: Theodore Reed <rizen@surreality.us>
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:13:17 +0100 
"Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de> wrote:

> coi .ian. do cusku di'e
> > .i.e'u ko troci tu'a la jbofi'e .i.o'acu'i mi ta'e pilno ri lepu'u 
> > cipra pu mi gubyternoi
> 
> Maybe you should use it a bit more :)
> 
> "I habitually use it for the purpose of (the <process-of [testing
> before me]>-type-of public-message-author)" looks a bit strange to me.
> Things aren't grouping the way you probably intended them to.
> 
> I'm not too hot on pu'u (nor grammar in general), but maybe you want
> something more along the lines of {mi ta'e pilno ri lepu'u cipra kei
> pu lenu mi gubyternoi} with an extra {kei} to close of the {le pu'u}
> abstraction and a {le nu} after {pu}?

Am I the only one that noticed his usage of "ri"? Doesn't "ri" mean the
last sumti? ie "mi pilno ri" would be "I use myself".

Or am I just way off my rocker?

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