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lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org wrote:
>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

Thanks! As for {papace'i}... What a careless gaffe on my part. I really do know better. The same cannot be said for my understanding of complex tenses. I don't know how {la'e di'e} and {lo masti be li re} can be made to fit into the sentence. They appear to be sumti without a selbri. With {roi}, I was stabbing in the dark trying to use "two months" as a modifier of interval or distance for a tense (which is why I didn't include an article, which would turn it into a sumti). In your re-statement, does it serve as a modifier for {va}?
- la epcat.

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