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Subject: [lojban] Re: jecta cuxna
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On Thursday 15 May 2003 18:41, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> la jexóm cusku di'e
>
> > what do you understand from my tentative sentence below? tia for your
> > (lojbanic) comments
> >
> > .a'o xu na se za'o lerci le mu'e mi jecta cuxna la'i crino
>
> From the picture, I guess: "I hope it is not too late already
> to vote for the Greens?"
>
> While I agree that "already" is a kind of opposite of {za'o},
> I don't think it could be its se-transform (if that was grammatical).
> I would expect that if {za'o} corresponds to some broda such
> that za'o = fi'o broda, it would be something like
> "x1 occurs beyond natural ending point x2", so that {se za'o}
> would mark the natural ending point of some other event.

{se za'o} doesn't parse. I took it to be an error for {za'o se}.

phma