Re: [jboske] Re: poi'i, se/te/ve ka

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> > "ka mi xunre" is precisely the same as "du'u mi xunre", because
> > there's no places for ce'u to go (it would normally be "ka mi xunre
> > ce'u" but there is no x2 for xunre).
> 
> You can't trick me into defending ce'u-less ka! But this is not how it was
> interpreted the CLL, or the older generations who liked it.

As the author of CLL, I certainly had the ce'u-less ka = du'u concept in
mind, even if I didn't spell it out. I think only Bob objects to this,
and his objection is of the form "I can't be sure it's always true".

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