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From: Colin Fine <colin@kindness.demon.co.uk>
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Subject:      Re: sera'aku GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals
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In article: <824320150.6471.4@vms.dc.lsoft.com> bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu
writes:

>
> 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:
>
>     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.
>

Wouldn't the second be better expressed

>    .i mi klama la glazgov.
>     co'a lo nanca be li pi mu prulamji be
>     pu le nu xabju la belfast.
                                         ^^

(or perhaps more neatly by
        .i mi klama la glazgov.
        co'a lo nanca be li pi mu prulamji
        be le nu xabju la belfast.

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