From robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Wed Jan 26 09:34:15 2000 X-Digest-Num: 345 Message-ID: <44114.345.1844.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:34:15 +0200 From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: Fwd: Subjunctive? SwiftRain wrote: > > From: SwiftRain > > Pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > > > If I had a million pounds/dollars/kroner > > then I'd be rich. > > why is this a complicated issue, doi jbopre? > > is there something wrong with lu > "ganai mi ponse lo megdo rupnu gi mi ricfu" > li'u? While the discussion of counterfactuals has been interesting, I agree with this. {ganai ... gi} is a logical IF, not an English "if", and whether I really have a million squeebies, or the potential to aquire them, is not relevant. zo'o mi ponse lo megdo rupnu .i ku'i mi na ricfu ni'i lenu panononononono lo gugdrturki,e rupnu cu jbivamji re lo merko rupnu co'o mi'e robin. (1,000,000 Turkish Lira is apporoximately equal to $2.00)