From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Mon Mar 1 05:35:42 1999 X-Digest-Num: 78 Message-ID: <44114.78.470.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:35:42 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" "Jorge J. Llambías" wrote: >> Yes, and the way to do it is what you have above. It is also possible >> to join tenses with logical connectors, but that gives a different >> meaning. For example: {ko'a mi puzu je bazu xanjai} means >> "she held my hand long ago and she will hold my hand in the >> future", i.e. possibly two separate events, whereas {ko'a mi >> puzuku bazuku xanjai} describes a single event, which is, >> I believe, what you want in this case. > >i see. but what does it mean to say that a single event is both puzu >and bazu? By the imaginary jounrney metaphor, there is vector motion in time in the tense order presented. > does that mean that it stretches from far past to far future no - you would need the interval connective bi'i for this >-- does "puzuku bazuku broda" assert that "caku broda"? No. Because "zu" is an indefinite interval and may not have identical values in the two tense occurances. Thus as I answered Jorge, I would read the above as "a long time ago was eventually going to" lojbab