Re: [lojban-beginners] Mixing tenses

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 18:05:46 .iuROK. wrote:
> > It does not matter how we refer, only what we refer to
> 
> .u'i
> I just realized how funny the word {binxo} appears in the light of my
> explanation. Consider the example:
> lo verba ku binxo lo makcu ku
> Here I'm again talking about myself, so, to give the listener a better idea
> of which child and which adult I am talking about, I'll just replace both
> sumti with {mi} which has exactly the same referent.
> mi binxo mi
> ki'ai .uut.

pu'u lo jungo cu binxo lo jungo
(Not-quite-right translation of a chapter title in Guns, Germs, and Steel. 
Better would be "pu'u la .jugygug. binxo lo jungo" or "pu'u la .jugygug. co'a 
jungo".)

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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