From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 21 13:06:33 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1INZzj-0000C0-Lf for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:06:32 -0700 Received: from mail.bcpl.net ([204.255.212.10]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1INZzh-0000Bn-7x for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:06:31 -0700 Received: from webmail.bcpl.net (webmail.bcpl.net [204.255.212.24]) by mail.bcpl.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id l7LK6P8p004797; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:06:25 -0400 (EDT) X-WebMail-UserID: turnip Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:06:25 -0400 From: turnip To: "Jorge Llamb=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=EDas?=" , lojban-beginners X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002700 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cu'e Message-ID: <46CE0A56@webmail.bcpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Spam-Score: 1.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 11 X-Spam-Bar: + X-archive-position: 5411 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: turnip@bcpl.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners >===== Original Message From "Jorge Llambías" ===== >On 8/21/07, Vid Sintef wrote: >> Is >> {do bacu'e cliva} >> possible by way of questioning which temporal distance (zi/za/zu) is true? > >I suppose, although the grammar of {cu'e} is not the same as that >of ZA. I don't think {cu'e} is a very useful word. bacu'e is ugnrammatical... see LRG (CLL), Chapter 10: ---- The only way to combine ``cu'e'' with other tense cmavo is through logical connection, which makes a question that pre-specifies some information: 24.9) do puzi je cu'e sombo le gurni You [past] [short] and [when?] sow the grain? You sowed the grain a little while ago; when else do you sow it? ---- --gejyspa