WikiDiscuss

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:15:22AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> > Re: BPFK Section: Aspect WRT:
> >
> > ja'e lo xlamau mi ze'a lo masti be li ji'ixa cu de'a sai lumci lo mi
> > flira fo lo mokau jisygau
> >
> > To make things worse, I pretty much stopped washing my face with any
> > kind of cleanser for about six months.
> >
> > "To make things worse" is an added piece of information; ja'e is a
> > causative.
>
> ja'e is a resultative, not a causative.

There's a difference? I though the one was the inverse of the other.

> That things get worse is the result of the rest.

Oh! OK, I see it now.

> > WRT:
> >
> > le kulnu be lo pruxa'u natmi cu ze'u pu'o daspo canci
> >
> > The culture of the indigenous peoples was for a long time on the
> > verge of being eradicated.
> >
> > Very minor: pu'o alone doesn't say "on the verge of" to me. "pu'o
> > zi", perhaps?
>
> With the current grammar, {pu'o zi} becomes {pu'o ku zi}, so it would
> no longer be a selbri tcita example.

Bah. pu'o je zi?

-Robin