Subject: Re: Alice proofreading

From: "jjllambias2000" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:46:06 -0000

--- In [email-masked], Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@l...> 
wrote:
> > >After falling like this: {ba lonu farlu tai ti kei} shouldn't it 
be {tai
> > >la'edi'u}?
> > 
> > No, she is not referring to anything that she has just described.
> > She is referring to "this situation that I'm in". I think that has
> > to be {ti}.
> 
> ti is something you point at. You don't point at situations.

Why don't you point at situations? {ta nu farlu}, for 
"that's a fall", seems like a perfectly reasonable thing 
to say.

> What's wrong with lo nu zi farlu?

So you want "after this fall" instead of "after a fall like 
this". Isn't {tai ti} closer to the original?

mu'o mi'e xorxes