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Re: TECH: Lean Lujvo and fat gismu



mi pu cusku di'e
> > But {cusku} doesn't have a "language" place, so I've got to use
> > another word to tack this on.  We normally use {bau} or {bangu},
> > although this has a seemingly irrelevant-in-this-context place
> > for the people who speak the language.

.i la xorxes. cusku di'e
> bangu ban     bau  language
> x1 is a/the language/dialect used by x2
> to express/communicate x3 (si'o/du'u, not quote)

> It doesn't look like it has to be all the speakers of the language.

Oops!  Looks like I chose a bad example (to illustrate problems -
a good example of a productive place structure).
I was working with

bangu ban     bau  language
x1 is a/the language/dialect of people(s) x2    1b 162

which now appears to be out-of-date.

mi'e .i,n.