From adam@pubcrawler.org Fri Feb 26 07:09:56 2010 Received: from express.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.16] helo=mail.cec.wustl.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl1p8-0002t7-9n for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:09:55 -0800 Received: from grid.cec.wustl.edu (grid.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.20.97]) by mail.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42121E8022; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:42 -0600 (CST) Received: by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix, from userid 29287) id A63AD1F7878; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3F11F7838; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Tenses in abstractions In-Reply-To: <925d17561002251444r2e9a09s88ebcf2895c0420b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1f1080831002250758rb17bd2dk664e035452c298e4@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561002250954p6d57ef87w3cde7fd92a9fe7d9@mail.gmail.com> <1f1080831002251318p78bab1dbha716f66a082c0daf@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9301002251328o11d2223r12bf275e35e71955@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561002251336o12bddef4re5cec4b5ac32893f@mail.gmail.com> <20100225215933.GA14097@sdf.lonestar.org> <925d17561002251427h15040eb6p7256255a4d770b3c@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9301002251436y7ab2ba63w5e7e942e368a508f@mail.gmail.com> <925d17561002251444r2e9a09s88ebcf2895c0420b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-58695404-1198338094-1267196982=:5908" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---58695404-1198338094-1267196982=:5908 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> e.g. {mi pu citka vi lo >> xamsi} "I ate near the ocean" (who cares where that ocean is in relati= on to >> where we are now). =A0How would you say that if {vi} marks how far awa= y from >> the origin you are? > > mi pu citka ne'a lo xamsi I'm curious, under your proposal is there a *general* way to specify the origin? The FAhA are all well and good, but it seems like if there's a w= ay to say "I ate 100 meters from [the origin]", it would be really nice to be a= ble to specify the origin, without needing a particular direction. --=20 Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ "He's dead, Jim! As if our insurance rates weren't high enough already." ---58695404-1198338094-1267196982=:5908--