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[lojban-beginners] Re: ba bo and pu bo



    Yes, I never really liked that. But it’s basically the equivalent of the English:

la meris klama ba lenu mi klama fi le kumfa  = Mary came after the event of me-leaving-the-room

la meris klama .i babo mi klama fi le kumfa. =   Mary came.  After(wards) (or “After some unspecified event”), I left the room.

The “i” is key, making them two separate (but yet conneted because of the bo) utterances.

 

       --gejyspa

 


From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Anand Deopurkar
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:53 AM
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] ba bo and pu bo

 

Why do ba bo and pu bo mean opposites of what they should mean?

For example, la meris klama ba lenu mi klama fi le kumfa. (Mary came after I left the room)
should be equivalent to - la meris klama .i babo mi klama le kumfa.
However (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less10connect.html) says that
ba bo means "after wards." It also hints that this is because of its similarity with baku, but it still bothers me.

-Anand