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

[Cortesi <dcortesi@mindspring.com>]

On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> 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.

> What you're thinking of is {ibabo},

Yah know, I just gotta finish reading Lojban for Beginners <blush>...  
this is covered there plain as day...

> 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".

Oh no, they know they're going inevitably down. That's established in  
the preceding lines.

ibabo is perfect.

More of POM next week.