[lojban-beginners] Re: re "mi dunda ma ko"

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

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

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Robin Turner
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Bilkent Universitesi
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Turkey

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