Subject: Re: translation exercise

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 21:28:13 -0000

For some reason, I am not being allowed to reply directly to threads 
in this group. So I'm posting a new message....

Apparently "before" is ambiguous in that it can signal preemption or 
temporal precedence, or both.

The madman was captured before he killed his cellmate.

The madman stopped counting corners of the square before he 
encountered a fifth corner.