On Saturday, April 7, 2012 6:01:19 AM UTC+2, Lindar wrote:.i ko ca'u klama seji'e lo minli be li mu"Go straight up to five miles.".i ko ca'u klama sela'u lo minli be li mu"G straight for five miles."Saying {lo mu minli} is like "some unspecified number of five of some unspecified (though probably one) miles which may or may not be contiguous and by context probably are not or I would have just said so explicitly". Don't be lazy. <3{lo PA broda} means {zo'e noi ke'a broda gi'e zilkancu li PA lo broda}.How is it "some unspecified number of PA broda"?Maybe your version is logical, but not practical. You usually don't talk about some unspecified number of five cows, so making it a default option is weird.
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