Subject: Re: translation exercise

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:02:36 -0000

(Okay, this message has to go to the right spot in the thread!)

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

e.g., 

The madman was captured before he killed his cellmate.

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

-jrc

(Sorry, Robin. I managed to let another one slip through.)

--- In lojban@y..., Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@d...> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:41:33PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> > 
> > la camgusmis cusku di'e
> > 
> > > > i'e le fenki cu se kavbu pu ro nu fy catra da
> > >
> > >If he ever kills in the future, or if he ever killed in the past,
> > >the sentence is false.
> > 
> > Why is it false if he kills in the future? The capturing would
> > happen before that event, so the sentence is true.
> 
> Oh!
> 
> Right, sorry. My bad.
> 
> -Robin
> 
> -- 
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