From jwodder@sdf.lonestar.org Thu Feb 25 13:59:54 2010 Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NklkF-0002F8-BQ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:59:54 -0800 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1PLxaYj014678 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:59:36 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.12.8/Submit) id o1PLxZwo010381 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:59:35 GMT Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:59:35 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Tenses in abstractions Message-ID: <20100225215933.GA14097@sdf.lonestar.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org References: <1f1080831002250758rb17bd2dk664e035452c298e4@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561002250954p6d57ef87w3cde7fd92a9fe7d9@mail.gmail.com> <1f1080831002251318p78bab1dbha716f66a082c0daf@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9301002251328o11d2223r12bf275e35e71955@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561002251336o12bddef4re5cec4b5ac32893f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17561002251336o12bddef4re5cec4b5ac32893f@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by sdf.lonestar.org id o1PLxaYj014678 de'i li 25 pi'e 02 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Jorge Llamb=C3=ADas .fy. cusku zoi = skamyxatra. > "zi ma" asks "how long ago?"/"how long from now?", with the assumption > that it will be a short time ago/from now. .skamyxatra Really? I thought "{zi ma}" meant "a short time from what?" by analogy t= o "{vi ma}." mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun --=20 li'a .e'i ca vondei .i mi na'e pu'i kufra loi vondei