From jjllambias@xxxxxxx.xxxx Wed Aug 25 06:50:21 1999 X-Digest-Num: 221 Message-ID: <44114.221.1201.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 06:50:21 PDT From: "Jorge Llambias" Actually the original example in the lesson has a {kei} after {gugde}, >which I assume does the same trick. It was > >lenu la kolumbus. facki lo cnino gugde kei se detri ma It still doesnŽt work. You get the sumti {le nu...kei se detri}. The sentence is grammatical, but it doesnŽt have a selbri. You would need {ku} after {kei} to close the sumti. When the choice is between {cu} and anything else, {cu} is the way to go. > > >{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. > >That was my first choice, but I thought it might be a bit malglico. >Coloumbus doscovered what was (to him at least) a new country, but "The New >World" for the Americas seems a bit culture-specific. He thought he had discovered a new route to an old place. Maybe {le cnino dargu}? >I had considered introducing {xo} in this >lesson but dropped the idea, as {xo} doesn't seem to be that useful outside >complicated mekso stuff. I almost never use mekso stuff, but I find {xo} useful for other things. Not for "what number" questions, but for "how many/how much" questions. Things like: {xo prenu cu zvati le kumfa}. coŽo miŽe xorxes