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Re: Correct terminator(s)?
coi filip.
do cusku di'e
> Hi, I have a question.
>
[...]
> but if I want to say it as "I described my reading of the book to
> you", then the "obvious" translation,
>
> mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta do
>
> is incorrect because then the "do" is attached to the "tcidu" and
not
> to the "skicu", as desired (and I guess the result means something
> like "I described how I read from the book which is written on
you").
> So I need at least one terminator in there somewhere. However, I'm
> not sure which ones. My first attempt was "ku", but
>
> mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta ku do
>
> only terminates "le cukta" as argument to "tcidu" and still attaches
> "do" to "tcidu". However, all of the following appear to work (at
> least according to jbofi'e):
>
> mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta ku ku do
> .i mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta kei do
> .i mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta kei ku do
> .i mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta ku kei do
>
> I presume they can't all be correct -- or can they? If they are, is
> there a difference? Which would be the preferred way? If none is
> correct, what would be the correct way to say it?
>
Grammatically they all are correct - they do exactly the same job,
so the question is merely of "good style". For a computer all the
variants are the same. For a human being though the variant
mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta kei do
seems to be the most digestible.
co'o mi'e .evgenis.