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Re: [lojban] Time for the perenial other-centric-.ui conversation



On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 01:45:47PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
> That's actually not what I intend but it is what will inevitably
> happen.
> 
> I was talking to my wife who is perpetually freezing and at one
> point I remembered somehing and wanted to say "oh yeah!  Your dad
> said he was going to make a fire tonight _____".  Where "______"
> was that cool new cmavo of COI that takes a UI before it and
> somehow applies it to the object of the COI.  I've searched around
> but must be using the wrong search terms. Anybody remember what
> I'm talking about?
> 
> What I'm trying to express is something like what you want to
> express when you play peekaboo with a baby.  It's like some kind
> of .uadai like "surprise!"  But it's not a command or an
> observation, but more of like an expectation.  Almost like a
> .uipeikau if that makes any sense?

{ko se spaji} ; why does this need to be a UI?

-Robin

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