On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:12:44PM -0400, Nora LeChevalier wrote: > At 01:22 PM 7/3/02 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >On Tuesday 02 July 2002 21:23, Jordan DeLong wrote: > > > If I say > > > > > > le gerku cu jersi le mlatu > > > <they> cu tatpi binxo > > > > > > What can I use for <they>? I don't think "rera" or "reri" is quite > > > right... "ri .e ra" is a little bit lame, but the only thing I can > > > think of. Are there cmavo for this that I dunno about? > > Having read through the several replies, I have yet to see the following > points raised: > > 1. on "ri .e ra": My understanding is that "ri" would refer back to the > last sumti, which is the cat. Then, "ra" would refer back to the > next-to-last sumti - the first being "ri", which is NOT permanently > assigned, and so is available as a referent. This makes "ra" refer again > to the cat. You could instead (though I don't recommend it) use "ri .e ru" > or "ra .e ra". IIRC, ri, ra and ru skip sumti of: ri ra ru ko'[aeiou] mi do ti ta tu ... Additionally, "ra" != "rixire". ra just refers to a further-than-last sumti, not the next to last. I think re .e ra works, but it's still less desirable than using mei to talk about the pair of sumti. -- Jordan DeLong fracture@allusion.net
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