Re: a gadri which will solve all our box/doctor/unicorn-wanting problems (was

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la djorden cusku di'e

> > >mi nitcu fi lenu setca lei vi cukta ce'u poi tanxe (vo'e? depending on 
> what
> > >it means these days, or maybe ri to avoid the question)
>
> He could currently do a "tu'a lo tanxe" thing in x2. But you're
> ignoring his "le" on the "nu", which makes no sense---it's pretty
> difficult to refer specifically to future events, especially if you
> don't even have a box yet. So why le? We keep hitting these all
> over the place (cf. *mi djica lenu mi citka).

I know {le nu} isn't right there, that's why I had used {le du'u}.
But ce'u makes even less sense, and we were discussing the x2 of
nitcu in any case, so I just ignored that part.

> So, how about add an eliptical gadri? "lai'u" or some such. The
> meaning is zi'o-style for gadri---it means we don't feel like putting
> a gadri here, but we have to. So:
[...]

Congratulations, you've discovered the intensional gadri!
That's what I use {lo'e} for.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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