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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:28:16 -0300
From: "=?US-ASCII?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
Subject: Re: Verbs [FWD from AUXLANG]
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>I was wondering what an interruptive would be in Lojban e.g. "I
>was leaving the house when the phone rang" (implying that I
>stopped and went back to answer it).  {co'u} would work (or
>{de'a} if it was a mobile phone!), but doesn't carry the sense of
>an action being interrupted by something else.
>
>co'o mi'e robin.

I would say:

    mi pu'o cliva le zdani ca le nu le fonxa cu janbe

This really says that I was about to leave, not that the leaving was
already going on. If you want to insist on that aspect, you might
say {mi pu'o mo'u cliva}, "I was about to complete the leaving",
but I don't think this is really necessary.

co'o mi'e xorxes