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Re: [lojban] translation exercise
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:16:50AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> And Rosta wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering how to say this in Lojban:
> >
> > "Fortunately, the madman was captured before he murdered someone"
>
> I was going to say .ui le fenki pu kavbu ca le nu fy. pu'o catra
> da, but I think we decided that you can't be in the pu'o stage of
> something that never gets to the ca'o stage.
>
> How about .ui le fenki pu kavbu pu leda'i nu fy. catra da, then.
> The "da'i" emphasizes that "fy. catra da" does not hold.
Heh heh.
I think you mean 'se kavbu'.
-Robin
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