[lojban-beginners] Re: More Turner/Nicholas lesson questions

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:11:35PM -0500, Nora LeChevalier wrote:
> At 07:19 PM 10/26/03 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> >Lesson 9, Exercise 4 (collapse two sentences into one with poi), item 5:
> >
> >        .i mi viska va le barja le ninmu .i mi klama le barja le briju
> >
> >The answer given is
> >
> >        .i mi viska va le barja poi mi klama fi le briju ku'o le ninmu
> >
> >which is fine.  When answering this, I didn't write that, but I came up
> >with two other alternatives:
> >
> >        .i mi viska va le barja poi mi klama ke'a le briju ku'o le ninmu
> >        .i mi viska va le barja poi se klama mi le briju ku'o le ninmu
> >
> >After reading the explanation accompanying the answer, I'm fairly
> >sure the first is a reasonable alternative (it's just a question
> >of whether you'd rather use fi or ke'a).  But what about the
> >second?  Is it a reasonable rendition?  (And if not, why not?)
> 
> I am a bit confused by the answers you've been given to this.  All
> of them look equivalent to me.  

They are.

One of my previous posts made a comment about observatives that was
simply incorrect, and I apologize.

-Robin

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