Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: How versatile is "nu"?

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> I guess the equivalent for "nu" could be "li'i":
>
>  mi nelci lo li'i ce'u citka
>
> is different from:
>
>  mi nelci lo li'i citka ce'u
>
> but in practice we would probably just say:
>
>  mi nelci lo nu mi citka
>
>  mi nelci lo nu citka mi
>
> I think I may have used "ce'u" with "nu" at some point, but it's not
> something that I have found very useful so far.

It's handy as the x2 of {kakne}.

.i mi .e nai lo xamsi cu kakne lo nu ce'u limna
.i mi na .e lo xamsi cu kakne lo nu limna ce'u

(Putting aside whether {kakne} requires agency or the like).
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