From jjllambias@xxxxxxx.xxxx Tue Aug 24 13:08:36 1999 X-Digest-Num: 220 Message-ID: <44114.220.1192.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:08:36 PDT From: "Jorge Llambias" coi rodoi i diŽu na gendra i peŽi do skudji lu coi rodo liŽu >lenu la kolumbus. facki le cnino gugde se detri li pavosore [cu missing] >would mean that he discovered America on the 1492nd day, rather >than in the year 1492. Would something like {la pavosorenanc.} >clear this up? I think that would be understood. Maybe {facki} will end up with that meaning too, since it is almost always used for finding some object, place or person rather than for finding out that some fact is true about something. >{ta'o} I left {le cnino gugde} deliberately vague to avoid >confusion/argument about what he really did discover! {le cnino munje} would work too. >Another question - I've always used the question word {ma} with >{detri} and {tcika}, since although the normal x1 is a number >(implying {xo} as the question), the place seems also capable of >taking cmene, But {ma} asks for any sumti, and can be used to ask for sumti with {li} as well. You donŽt need that justification for using {ma}. To use {xo} youŽd have to say {li xo} instead of plain {ma}. >as in > >la pacac. cu tcika ti > >or > >la padjed. cu detri ti {la padjed} was Monday, Sunday, or the first of the month? coŽo miŽe xorxes