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Re: BPFK Section: Aspect

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I don't think I've got a handle on the before-and-after of your changes.

I was going to write:

WRT:

mi tolji'a lo samci'e nunkei pu'o lo nu mi cpacu lo norji'a pinka

I was about to lose a network game, when I got a Tiebreaker notice.

That just doesn't work. By the convention you are using, the Lojban says "I lose/lost a network game, and before that I got a Tiebreaker notice". In contrast, the English implies that the game was not in fact lost, due to the interruption. You need some kind of indication of counterfactuality on the main bridi, or something.

-- but now I'm not so sure.

It would help me a lot if, for each of the examples in the Impact section, you gave a Before translation and an After translation.

At least one example in the Impact section does not use pu'o or ba'o, but your Notes section implies that only they have changed. Please resolve this.

-Robin