From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 04 10:55:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 4 Oct 2001 17:55:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 68068 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2001 17:55:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Oct 2001 17:55:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Oct 2001 17:55:44 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15pCiz-0001eH-00 for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:55:57 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:55:57 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] translation exercise Message-ID: <20011004105557.J598@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:44:13PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > >"Fortunately, the madman was captured before he murdered someone" > > I think maybe: > > i'e le fenki cu se kavbu pu ro nu fy catra da > > Of course that doesn't say that he didn't murder anyone _after_ > he was captured, Yes it does. He was captured before _every_ event of his killing someone, due to the ro. If he ever kills in the future, or if he ever killed in the past, the sentence is false. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/