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> <rlpowell> So I think that {mi klama fa'a do} means, approx, {lo nu mi klama
> cu se farna do}
> <rlpowell> i.e. "the event of my going, as a whole, faces you".
> <rlpowell> Which, generally speaking, is a pretty remarkably useless
> concept.

The event of going has an intrinsic (but most often unused) face.
This face is the face of an imaginary person who would act the
aforementioned going.

Let I make myself clearer : when you say (in english) : << The guys
began to drink, and, ten beers later, they were totally drunk. >>, you
do as if << ten beers >> had a duration property.   You use the
intrinsic duration property of "ten beers" to say "ten beers later".

That seems odd, because "a day", "a year", "a symposium", "a speech"
have intrinsic duration property, but how could "a beer" have one ?
The fact is it has.   That's because "a beer" is connected to usual
actions a beer leads to, such as to drink it, mostly, and "the
drinking" has a duration property.

It is up to lojban grammarians to decide if broda, in the general
case, has intrinsic properties, or not.   If it has, this makes the
creation of simple sentences much more easy.   If not, this may be
more light on a logical level (on a pragmatic one, in fact), but
sentences will be more difficult to combine.

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