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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@ntlworld.com>
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Greg:
> From: "Rob Speer" <rob@twcny.rr.com>
> > When discussing actual causation, I believe that either {ganai...gi} or
> > a gismu will always work. When discussing hypothetical events, {mu'ei}
> > is clearer than anything with {da'i}.
> >
> but da'i has no other use, so da'i can be made as clear (by my nonce
> usage...)

I'm not saying that da'i isn't appropriate with conditionals, but it
certainly does have other uses, principally to indicate that a sentence
is being entertained hypothetically rather than being asserted to be
true. 

--And.