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Bob Chassell writes:
[example deleted re "pu la meris."]
let us not get sidetracked by whether this means what Bob intended.  There
has been debate unending about pu la name.

>Utterance 7.
>===========
>
>   .i mi klama la glazgov.
>    co'a lo nanca be li pi mu prulamji
>    pu le nu xabju la belfast.
>
>which parses as:
>
>    (i {mi <klama
>      [({
>        <la glazgov>
>          <co'a [lo ({nanca <be [li ({pi mu} BOI) LO'O] BE'O>} prulamji) KU]>
>        }
>        {pu <le [nu (xabju {<la belfast> VAU}) KEI] KU>}
>       ) VAU]>})
>
>which translates as:
>
>    I go to Glasgow
>    at the beginning of a half-year-type-of earlier-than-type-of-adjacency
>    in the past of the event of living in Belfast
>
>But I don't know what the translation means!
>
>Does it mean:
>--More--
>
>    I went to Glasgow six months ago, before living in Belfast.
>
>or does it mean:
>
>    I went to Glasgow six months before living in Belfast.
>
>I think it means the second.

I would have guessed the first, with the second made explicit by inserting
a "be" before "pulenu xabju" (of course you then probably do not need the
pu since I think the x2 of prulamji would imply it).

lojbab