[lojban-beginners] Re: la melpelkre .e le ci cribe

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

On 6/1/07, Turniansky, Michael [UNK] <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com> wrote:
> > {pu ca'o citka} or {pu citka pi so'u ...} would make things clearer.
> > Without {ca'o} or {pi su'o} I read them as completed events.
>
>  Well, aren't they completed?  She isn't eating the porridge any
> longer...

The eating was not completed in those cases, she stopped eating
the porridge before the event of her eating the porridge was complete.

{pu citka} could be {pu mo'u citka} or {pu ca'o citka}, but since in this
case it is important and relevant that {mo'u} is not the actual aspect,
I think making the {ca'o} explicit is useful to prevent the {mo'u} reading.

mu'o mi'e xorxes