Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 06:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Tenseless predicates mean -able?
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On Friday, September 26, 2014 9:05:20 AM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:
>
>
> To explicitly express "-able" use {ka'e} adverb.
> i la alis ka'e se ctuca = Alice is possible to be taught.
> i la alis ka'e ba mo'u cilre = It is possible that Alice will learn 
> [something].
> i la alis cu tadni = Alice is/was/will be a student.
>

That's what I expected. So Lojban (if not Loglan itself) dropped this whole 
notion of capability. That's interesting b/c if you read this section JCB 
seems quite adamant about it, as if it were the whole point of not 
specifying tense.

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Friday, September 26, 2014 9:05:20 AM UTC-4, la gleki w=
rote:<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8e=
x;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><di=
v class=3D"gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><bloc=
kquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-l=
eft: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div class=3D=
"gmail_quote"><div>To explicitly express "-able" use {ka'e} adverb.</div><d=
iv>i la alis ka'e se ctuca =3D Alice is possible to be taught.</div><div>i =
la alis ka'e ba mo'u cilre =3D It is possible that Alice will learn [someth=
ing].</div><div>i la alis cu tadni =3D Alice is/was/will be a student.</div=
></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's what I expected.=
 So Lojban (if not Loglan itself) dropped this whole notion of capability. =
That's interesting b/c if you read this section JCB seems quite adamant abo=
ut it, as if it were the whole point of not specifying tense.</div><div><br=
></div></div>

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