From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jan 07 18:37:26 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3kO5-0003ov-LZ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:37:25 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3kO3-0003oj-Bo for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:37:25 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB2ACE85D for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:37:01 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: tomorrow i'll go to school for the first time this year Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:35:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <45A1261E.4050007@perpetuum-immobile.de> <925d17560701070909o675cdf26ke812eddca8a882e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701072135.53618.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 3872 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:04, Betsemes wrote: > Is that "ba" needed there? or is it there because it was present in > the original English? It is grammatical in Lojban to have no tense. I would leave it out, unless it were likely that "le bavlamdei" be interpreted as "the next day" rather than "tomorrow". phma