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High voodoo: sumti for here-and-now



This came up in the lessons, although it won't be incorporated in them.
The lessons say you can say "ma tcika ti" for "what time is it?" Is there
a sumti representing "here-and-now" which can substitute for "ti"? "caku"
isn't it, since it contains a sumti tag, and cannot form a default
argument of a selbri.

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