erros in text Re: `already' {lojban/English sentences}

[Colin Fine <colin@kindness.demon.co.uk>]

Bob,
Besides the error with ga'inai that you've already noted, I believe you have
quite a number of other errors - missing 'cu', '.i' etc. Yes what you've
got parses, but I think if you look at the parse it's not what you intended:


> 1.  When the police arrived, the butler had already cleaned the rug.
>
>   .i lo pulji se rinsa ba'o le zdase'u lo lolbo'o pu'i lumci
>   One or more police are greeted in the aftermath of what I designate
>   as the house type of servant can and has made clean the floor-sheet.
>   < I put the selbri last for dramatic effect.  >

(i {<[({lo <pulji [se rinsa]> KU} {ba'o <le zdase'u KU>}) (lo lolbo'o KU)]
 [(pu'i lumci) VAU]>

   "The police kind of greeted-arriver, in the aftermath of the butler,
      can and has washed the floor-sheet"

    .i lo pulji cu se rinsa ba'o le nu le zdase'u lo lolbo'o pu'i lumci
                ^^               ^^^^^
(I would prefer lolbu'u to lolbo'o, but that's a matter of taste)

>
> 2.  "What!", the Inspector said, "You have already destroyed the evidence!"
>
>   lu .ue .oi .a'onai .e'enaise'inai li'u
>   "Surprise, complaint, despair, incompetence attributed to other",
>
>   la'e di'u se bacru lo ralja'a
>   the last utterance was uttered by the principle leader.
>
 <[({<[lu ue oi a'o nai e'e nai se'i nai] FA'O
li'u> <la'e di'u LU'U>} {<se bacru> <[lo ralja'a KU] VAU>}) i (ri {cusku <
[(la'e di'e LU'U) (lu {do <[(ba'o pu'i) gasnu] VAU>} li'u)] VAU>})]

(Quoted text) is uttered by the referent of the last with-unspecified-
    sumti-place the chief

    lu li'o li'u .i la'e di'u se bacru lo ralja'a
                 ^^


>   .i ri cusku la'e di'e
>   He said the following utterance:
>
>   lu do ba'o pu'i gasnu lo nu
>   You are in the aftermath of can and has been an agentive cause of the event
>
>   loi velji'i datni se daspo li'u
>   the mass of that which really is grounds-for-opinion-type-of-data
>   is destroyed.
>

    He said the following to-audience "you have done the event the
    (subject-of-opinion data) kind-of destroyed thing..."

   .i ri cusku la'e di'e
   .i lu do ba'o pu'i gasnu lo nu loi xerji'i datni cu se daspo li'u
   ^^                                 ^^^           ^^

> 3. "But the others already came!" said the butler meekly.  "Weren't
>    they police?"
>
>   lu .i .ue ku'i lei drata prenu ba'o vitke li'u
>   Surprise, however, the mass of other people are in the aftermath of
 visiting.
>
>   la'e di'u se cusku le zdase'u ga'inai
>   the last utterance was said by the house-type of servant meekly.
>
>   lu .i xu lei drata cu pulji li'u
>   Is it true or false that the mass of others were police?
>

 [({lu <[i ue ku'i] [(lei {drata prenu} KU) ({ba'o vitke} VAU)]> li'u} {la'e
 di'u LU'U}) ({se cusku} {<[le (zdase'u ga'i nai) KU] [lu ({i xu} {<lei
drata KU> cu <pulji VAU>}) li'u]> VAU})]>})>

    (quoted string) is expressed by the-referent-of-the-last to the butler
    (humility) by-medium (quoted string)

    lu .i .ue ku'i ga'inai lei drata prenu ba'o vitke li'u
    .i la'e di'u se cusku le zdase'u
    ^^
    .i lu .i xu lei drata cu pulji li'u
    ^^

(making your change re ga'inai. I would also prefer 'zvati' to 'vitke',
and something like 'ja'opei' (or even je'unaipei) to xu)

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