[lojban-beginners] Re: needed be?

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

On 5/3/06, c k <letsclimbhigher@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > mi djuno fi le jai ca morsi be fai la djan.
>
> btw, the intent of the original bridi appears to be to make a statement
> wherein the speaker knew the time of john's death.

That's probably the intent, but it contains two common errors:

1- Using {morsi} "is-dead" instead of {mrobi'o} "dies". The time of
someone's death is the time when they die (become dead), not any
time in which they are dead.

2- Using {djuno fi ko'a}, "knowing something about it", when the intent
is {djuno lo du'u ma kau me ko'a}, "knowing what it is". Knowing what
the time of John's death is is more specific than knowing something
unspecified about the time of John's death.

mu'o mi'e xorxes