[lojban-beginners] Re: .imu'ibo

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

> For PU it's the other way around.

Hmm, tenses used as tcita have confused me for this reason.  So, as a followup question, {broda pu lo nu brode} means "broda and then brode" or "broda but first brode"?  Does PU when used as a tcita mark the main bridi or the following sumti and what is it's "origin"?

2010/3/21 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been perusing the CLL looking for an answer but haven't found a very
> clear one so I'll ask here.  Does {broda .imu'ibo brode} mean "broda
> therefore (motivationally) brode" or "broda because of (motivationally)
> brode"?

The latter. It is roughly equivalent to "broda mu'i lo nu brode".

> Same question for PU.

For PU it's the other way around. "broda .ibabo brode" roughly means
"brode ba lo nu broda".

> Basically this use of {bo} confuses me in
> just about every way.

That's understandable, because the conventions for tags are not as
consistent as they should have been.

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