[lojban] Re: jecta cuxna

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la jexóm cusku di'e

> what do you understand from my tentative sentence below? tia for your 
> (lojbanic) comments
> 
> .a'o xu na se za'o lerci le mu'e mi jecta cuxna la'i crino
 
From the picture, I guess: "I hope it is not too late already
to vote for the Greens?"

While I agree that "already" is a kind of opposite of {za'o},
I don't think it could be its se-transform (if that was grammatical). 
I would expect that if {za'o} corresponds to some broda such
that za'o = fi'o broda, it would be something like
"x1 occurs beyond natural ending point x2", so that {se za'o}
would mark the natural ending point of some other event. 

One of the meanings proposed for experimental {xa'o} is what 
you want: happening before the natural/expected time.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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