Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: response to art protin on 'nu' To: lojban-list Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 11:16:07 EDT In-Reply-To: ; from "Bob LeChevalier" at Jul 19, 91 2:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Jul 19 11:17:10 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cowan la lojbab. cusku di'e: > Now, people, anyone want to try to explain how these four subclasses of events > apply to the event of sleeping, generally spoken as "nu sipna". True, we > USUALLY think of sleeping as a state - but Lojban frees you from that > constraint allowing you to think of sleeping as an activity or a process. Well, the "process of sleeping" involves moving from wakefulness into stage 1 sleep, then stage 2, then stage 3, then a dreaming interval, then stage 3, then stage 4, then stage 3, .... then back to wakefulness. This description can also be thought of as the activity of sleeping if you focus on the individual steps rather than the progression from one to the next. And the "achievement of sleeping" is what happens when you hit the hay and then wake up to the shrieking alarm about two seconds later. :-) -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban