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Re: Sia / "soit, either"
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Paul Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Jul 2013 13:54:17 -0400
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Lunedi, le 08 julio 2013 07:37:31 -0400, Paul Gideon Dann  
<[log in to unmask]> scribeva:

> On ha scribite:
>> Io cerca un lingua auxiliar, sia un "conlang" (lingua constructe) o sia
>> un lingua natural.
>
> Puncto grammatic: io non crede que "sia" pote esser utilisate de iste
> maniera. On pote dicer "Sia bon!" a un puero (como in francese "Soit
> sage!"), mais on non pote utilisar "sia" como "sia un o le altere" (FR:
> "soit un, soit l'autre", EN: "either one or the other"). On debe (io  
> crede)
> dicer solmente "o le un, o le altere".
> [...]

"Interlingua: a Grammar of the International Language" (second edition  
1955): ยง134, p. 54 = "sia ... sia: be (it) ... or be (it); whether ...  
or". QED.

-- 
Amicalmente ad omnes,
Paul Bartlett


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