Subject: grammar nitpick question

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:01:11 -0500

I'm editing my message from the day the power went out into an article for 
nuzban, and I wrote this sentence:

{.ibo so'i py. na se bangu le glico gi'e seri'a na jimpe fi le midnoi tcita 
be le jeltci}

jbofi'e complained about "Missing selbri before GIhA". I tried {vau} and a 
few other things and found that the following works:

{.ibo so'i ra na se bangu le glico gi'e seri'a na jimpe fi le midnoi tcita be 
le jeltci}

Why?

phma