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Discussion of "benre"
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Comment #1:
Thoughts
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Jonathan (Thu Jun 25 13:03:25 2015)
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1. "Beneficiary" is a better word than "benefactor" for this definition, though it's tough to find a neutral English word for this.
2. This very much looks like what la selpahi might be trying to accomplish with xau; though he still defined it based on xamgu / seva'u. I wonder if be'ei would allow us to free that cmavo space.
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Comment #2:
Re: Thoughts
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Alex Burka (Thu Jun 25 15:54:01 2015)
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spheniscine wrote: > 1. "Beneficiary" is a better word than "benefactor" for this definition, > though it's tough to find a neutral English word for this. > > 2. This very much looks like what la selpahi might be trying to accomplish > with xau; though he still defined it based on xamgu / seva'u. I > wonder if be'ei would allow us to free that cmavo space.
Agreed that be'ei sounds a lot like that xau.
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Comment #3:
Re: Thoughts
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Jonathan (Thu Jun 25 17:20:42 2015)
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Yep... to be sure there are important differences; but I think the differences only make be'ei seem more useful, capturing a specific, commonly used sense of the English word "for".
On the other hand, the sense of xau/seva'u that be'ei doesn't cover, e.g. "It rained, which is good for me", seems rare enough that seva'u probably isn't too long. *shrugs*
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Comment #4:
Re: Thoughts
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Alex Burka (Thu Jun 25 17:22:37 2015)
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spheniscine wrote: > Yep... to be sure there are important differences; but I think the > differences only make be'ei seem more useful, capturing a specific, > commonly used sense of the English word "for". > > On the other hand, the sense of xau/seva'u that be'ei doesn't cover, > e.g. "It rained, which is good for me", seems rare enough that seva'u > probably isn't too long. *shrugs*
Well, I don't really see any difference between xau and seva'u, honestly. But be'ei can mean either seva'u or fi'o se xlali.
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