Subject: Re: le brajatna

From: "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 15:51:37 -0000

--- In [email-masked], "David Scriven" <topaz@l...> wrote:

> [.i .ue le brajatna cu klama bilxotli
> .i lo desku vipsi cu plipe judsanli
> .i le go'i cusku lu .io xamgu cerni doi nol. li'u fo blevo'a
> ni'o le brajatna catlu le vipsi zi simlu zu
> .i ba le go'i sivcusku lu ze'eba nu mi cadzu mo'i zo'a do kai ba mi 
> djica lo bilrinsa .e na'e le tcima srenoi li'u]
> 
> .i e'o ko lanli di'u

ni'o le brajatna catlu le vipsi *zi simlu zu*

Don't think that this will work for several reasons:

1) {zi} and {zu} stand for *distance* in time; you want to express time *intervals* So, e.g. putting {zi} at its proper place left of 
the selbri, it woun't have the desired meaning: le brajatna (pu)zi catlu le vipsi (... a short time ago) so {ze'i}/{ze'u} seems more 
appropriate.

2) {catlu} has only 2 places, so one would have to create a further one, maybe by using modals.
3) lastly, the (short) time interval has to be commented as seeming "age-long" - not too easy! Will have to think it over.

Maybe like this (although a bit verbose):
.i le brajatna caze'i catlu le vipsi noi se simlu le li'i ze'uku di'u

co'o mi'e la .aulun.