[lojban-beginners] Re: du'e preti

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  As for compound tenses, sure we
> can interpret something like "mi pu klama ba de'a lo nu ciska"  as "I
> went after taking a break from writing" (although we can't tell from
> this sentence if I went while I was still on break, or after
> resumption of writing, merely that I went after the start of the
> break).  Others may argue this interpretation.

I would argue it, because that would mean {bade'a} gets different
compositional meanings when used as selbri tcita or as sumti tcita.
As selbri tcita it indicates a later pause, but as sumti tcita it would
indicate after a pause.

mu'o mi'e xorxes