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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "Two months later"
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:40:13PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> I want to say "Two months later I know 11% of the vocabulary" in
> Lojban. Is it: 
>
> {.i ba'o la'e di'e roi re masti mi djuno lo valsi ji'e li nanacei} 
>
> in-aftermath-of referent-of last-utterance quantified-tense 2 month I know word up-to-limit 11%
>
> Is {ba'o} what I want? It seems that I have used {masti}
> ungrammatically, but I don't know where to fit it.

Actually, the ungrammatical part is "roi".  Umm, among other things.
"na na cei" is very far from what you want.

That's an *excellent* use of ji'e, though.

How about:

    .i ba'o la'e di'e za lo masti be li re mi djuno lo valsi ji'e li
    pa pa ce'i

Please note that that use of za is not standardized; we don't know
exactly what it means yet.

-Robin

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