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Re: Another question about imperatives



>From: Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Another question about imperatives
>
>>I think the dates should be inside of the se bilga, because they give the
>>time that the prescription should be made, not the time of the obligation.
>>(Also, the connective should be {e} instead of {gi'e}.)
>
>I wasn't sure about that -- I thought .e connected two sumti within the
>context of a particular place, rather than conjoining the places themselves.
> I.e. you could say "ne'i le botpi .e le tanxe" for "in the bottle and also
>in the box" but not "ne'i le botpi .e ne'i le tanxe".  Or can you do both?

The former parses correctly.  The latter requires a termset
construction.

lojbab