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MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2005-02-02 5:25:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> melissa@fastanimals.com writes:
>
>> what meaning would be taken from
>>
>> mi dunda ma ko
>>
>> It's part question and part command.
>
>
>
> Ask yourself this again after you have become fluent in Lojban and all 
> the parts of this sentence are second nature to you.  I suspect it 
> will be a lot more meaningful then.  
>
> stevo

do drani .i ku'i de'u na'e sidju

I have to confess that I can't make much sense of "mi dunda ma ko." The 
best I can come up with is "Act such that I give you something, and tell 
me what it is that I will give you."

robin.tr

-- 
"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is." -- Terry Pratchett


Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

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