Subject: if, then (was: Lessons)

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 03:21:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Rob Speer wrote:

> Okay, then we're essentially in agreement. ganai...gi and go...gi are
> legitimate ways of saying if...then as long as you're not basing it on a
> situation that is likely to be untrue.

"likely to be untrue?" Do you want your sentence to be able to hold up
under both conditions; where the premise is true and where it's not true?
Then use va'o. If you think the premise is always true, why cast it as a
conditional?

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