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From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>

Adam Raizen wrote:
> Two hungry people sit down to eat. After having barely
> started eating, and not passing any potential end, one
> of them suddenly receives a message that they must leave
> immediately. The second one protests:
> 
> But I am still hungry.
> i ku'i mi mo'unai xagji
> 
> i.e. I have not gotten to the natural completion of my
> being hungry.

Which is just as well, since if being hungry has such a thing
as a natural completion/termination point, it is starvation.
(Cf. the German verb _verhungern_.) What he means to say,
rather, is that he {co'unai xagji}, or else {mo'unai citka}.

--Ivan