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Discussion of "koi'e"
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Comment #1: Possible use independent of toi'e?
Jonathan (Sat May 23 04:49:30 2015)

I first proposed this as a scope-limiter to toi'e but I thought of a
possible use independent to it; namely in situations where it might be
useful to separate attitudinals/UI cmavo into discrete chunks despite them
all applying to the main text.

For example, to say "I'm joking, but it's true", you might use (zo'o je'u
ku'i), but then the whole mess clumps together and becomes confusing; is it
true that you're joking, to the contrary of some predetermined
expectation... or what?

On the other hand, (zo'o koi'e je'u ku'i) is much clearer. Technically it
should be (zo'o koi'e je'u toi'e ku'i), but it should be sufficient to get
the point across in this case.

Comment #2: Re: Possible use independent of toi'e?
Curtis W Franks (Fri May 29 16:45:04 2015)

spheniscine wrote:
> I first proposed this as a scope-limiter to toi'e but I thought of a
> possible use independent to it; namely in situations where it might be
> useful to separate attitudinals/UI cmavo into discrete chunks despite
them
> all applying to the main text.
>
> For example, to say "I'm joking, but it's true", you might use (zo'o je'u

> ku'i), but then the whole mess clumps together and becomes confusing; is
it
> true that you're joking, to the contrary of some predetermined
> expectation... or what?
>
> On the other hand, (zo'o koi'e je'u ku'i) is much clearer. Technically it

> should be (zo'o koi'e je'u toi'e ku'i), but it should be sufficient to
get
> the point across in this case.

I like the idea a lot.

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