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[lojban-beginners] Re: ba bo and pu bo
On 1/19/07, Anand Deopurkar <anand.deopurkar@gmail.com> wrote:
Why do ba bo and pu bo mean opposites of what they should mean?
An unfortunate oversight by the designers.
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.
Yes. It wouldn't be much of a problem if all tags consistently behaved
that way, but unfortunately that's not the case. For example:
{la meris klama ki'u lenu mi klama fi le kumfa} is basically equivalent
to {la meris klama .i ki'u bo mi klama fi le kumfa}. So tense-tags and
BAI-tags don't behave the same way.
mu'o mi'e xorxes