[lojban-beginners] Re: POM 2: This is Green Man Land

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:17, Cortesi wrote:
> e'u ma'a carna fi le berti .ice'o ma'a janli le dertu
>
> SUPER: We should turn North before we hit ground.
>
> (suggest we-all turn toward the north and-then the event-of we
> collide with the dirt)
>
> I'm very unsure of that last. How do we say things like "let's eat
> before we go to the theater"? {.ice'o} connects two sequential
> statements but I want a {pu} in there somehow to say "before" -- or
> do I?

What you're thinking of is {ibabo}, but {.e'u ma'a carna fi le berti .ibabo 
ma'a janli le dertu} means that we either actually will or ought to hit the 
ground. What you want is more like {.e'u ma'a carna fi le berti pu lo nu da'i 
janli le dertu} "...before the possibly unrealized event of hitting the 
ground". Or you could say {.e'u ma'a carna fi le berti tezu'e lonu na janli 
le dertu} "...so that we don't hit the ground".

Pierre