[lojban-beginners] Re: poi or noi?

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la iens cusku di'e

> {mi kakne lenu citka loi cidjrkari .i lenu citka loi cidjrkari
> cu nandu} becomes {mi kakne lenu citka loi cidjrkari kei poi
> (ke'a) nandu}
>
> As far as I understand this sentence it is a non-restrictive
> relative clause, since being difficult is just an additional
> information. But then you have to use {noi} instead of {poi}.
> Am I wrong? Was {poi} used instead of {noi}, because {noi}
> is introduced later?

You're quite right. With {poi} it says that I can manage
those events of eating cidjkari that are hard.

> By the way, the best translation for "Thanks in advance" I can
> manage is {mi ckire do lenu ba danfu le mi preti}. I know {ki'e},
> but how do I translate the "in advance"?

One possibility would be: ki'e ba'a, "Thanks! [Expectation!]"

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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