From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Apr 09 05:12:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 9 Apr 2002 12:12:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 79470 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2002 12:12:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Apr 2002 12:12:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2002 12:12:02 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA24644 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:11:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200204091211.IAA24644@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:10:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] IRC Discussion (Which I'd like comments on) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban List) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:10:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "xrizen" at Apr 09, 2002 11:07:23 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan xrizen scripsit: > mi pu viska le ninmu poi [was] klama le zarci ku'o > I saw the woman who was going to the store ... ? > Yeah > but how do I do the 'was'? > I think it's just pu > but I could be wrong > I don't want it to be read as 'went' You want "puca'o" = in the past, the event was in progress. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_