From alanpost@sunflowerriver.org Wed Feb 10 15:41:17 2010 Received: from mail-pz0-f195.google.com ([209.85.222.195]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NfMBG-0004sP-3p for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:17 -0800 Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so733786pzk.2 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.247.20 with SMTP id u20mr598763wfh.209.1265845265498; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunflowerriver.org (c-68-35-167-179.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [68.35.167.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm1724735pzk.3.2010.02.10.15.41.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:41:00 -0700 From: Alan Post To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Starting stories Message-ID: <20100210234100.GA16444@alice.local> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org References: <1f1080831002101527h41ecc51dr31eb898ec73e744@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1f1080831002101527h41ecc51dr31eb898ec73e744@mail.gmail.com> mi stidi lu ni'o ni'o ni'o li'u [I suggest "ni'o ni'o ni'o"] xu do jinvi [What do you think?] -Alan On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:27:55PM -0500, Ian Johnson wrote: > In English we have things like "once upon a time" or "one day" that we use > conventionally to start stories, especially in fiction. Latin takes this > one step further and uses just one word, "olim", which unlike the English > version has no tense dependence; it makes sense to use olim in a story > about the distant future. Does Lojban have anything like this, either > defined this way (like Latin) or conventionally used this way (like > English)? I've been hunting for a while and haven't gotten anywhere. > > mu'omi'e latros. -- Every place a riddle, every riddle a poem, every poem a spirit, every spirit a place.