Can you explain? I've tried not to learn or think about the
tense system, because I dislike it so much, but naively I
would gloss these thus:
{mi klama le zarci pu'o le nu mi citka}
I go to the shop in the runup to my eating.
{mi klama le zarci ca le nu mi pu'o citka}
I go to the shop at the time of the runup to my eating.
{mi pu'o klama le zarci ca le nu mi citka}.
It is the runup to my going, at the time of my eating, to the store.
Hence my naive glossing reflects the usage you consider erroneous.
Oh, I see: the issue is whether pu'o means "runup to" or "inchoative"
or "until", since all 3 are different but equally sanctioned by the
ma'oste, just like ba'o (aftermath v. since v. perfective).
Usually I'd say this is xorxes job, but, so far as I understand you, I think you agree with xorxes (so far as I understand him) in the first two cases and then flop over to the other side.
I don't hate tenses, but they can give me a headache, so I am dealing with this mess rather slowly -- maybe tomorrow.
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