On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM, .alyn.post.
<alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:12:12AM -0400, MorphemeAddict wrote:
> 2011/3/20 Remo Dentato [1]rdentato@gmail.com
>
> ...
> > mu'o mi'e xorxes
> While I'm at that. I never understood why you don't say {mi'e xorxes
> mu'o} since, in my mind, nothing should follow {mu'o}.
>
> I used to think the same thing, but somebody (perhaps xorxes) convinced me
> otherwise, and now I sign off (when I use Lojban) with "mu'o mi'e stevon".
> stevo
>
The story I told myself about {mu'o mi'e ...} was that the mu'o is
indeed saying "over" but not until the statement it was contained in
is uttered. If you want to be over right away there is {fa'o}.
.i mu'o mi'e .alyn.
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