TECH: bahi bo

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

Djan to Xorxe:
> > Which connective do you use for {ba'ibo}?
> I don't see that this one makes sense:  ba'i/basti doesn't take event
> (or other abstract) arguments.  To say "I, replaced by you, am going",
> use "mi ne ba'i do", which is "mi noi do basti ke'a".
> This is not the same as "My going replaces your going" which would be
> "lenu mi klama cu basti lenu do klama" or "mi ju'eba'ibo do klama";
> but does this case really mean anything at all?  It doesn't convey
> much to me.

To me, {bahibo} looks like a rather nifty translation of "instead of",
which, I am interested to observe, I am inclined to believe functions
in English as a conjunction sometimes.  So {mi [JOI] bahi bo do
klama} means "You go instead of me".

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