From phma@webjockey.net Sat Dec 07 18:01:34 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 8 Dec 2002 02:01:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 14868 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2002 02:01:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Dec 2002 02:01:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2002 02:01:33 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1DA813C5D0; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:01:20 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Subject: grammar nitpick question Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:01:11 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02120721011103.19670@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 I'm editing my message from the day the power went out into an article for nuzban, and I wrote this sentence: {.ibo so'i py. na se bangu le glico gi'e seri'a na jimpe fi le midnoi tcita be le jeltci} jbofi'e complained about "Missing selbri before GIhA". I tried {vau} and a few other things and found that the following works: {.ibo so'i ra na se bangu le glico gi'e seri'a na jimpe fi le midnoi tcita be le jeltci} Why? phma