On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:08:44PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > That's odd, since I for one consistently use djisku, on the grounds
> > that the appropriate tanru is djica cusku, as in "xu do djica cusku
> > lu mi na klama li'u".
>
> For the tanru, you want the base word to be {djica}, because "want to
> say" is a type of want more than it is an act of saying. But you want
> the place structure of cusku. As a tanru it would best be {cusku co
> djica}; as a lujvo, the place structure falls nicely into place for
> {skudji}.
>
> The fully expanded version is of course {djica le nu cusku}, but
> generally {djica le nu broda} gets tanru-ized as {broda djica}.
Actually "djica tu'a lo nu cusku".
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sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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