From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri Apr 16 06:49:13 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 16 Apr 1993 06:49:13 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8405; Fri, 16 Apr 93 06:48:58 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 1222; Fri, 16 Apr 93 06:49:36 EST Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 11:45:41 BST Reply-To: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Subject: Re: TECH: only, {me} place structure To: Erik Rauch Status: OR Message-ID: Chris Handley: > > Just to complicate matters, in South African English (aka Sarf Effrican > Inglish) "just now" means within the _next_ 5 minutes (about), whereas in > British English (and I think USAn) it means within the _previous_ 5 minutes. It does indeed in English English, but my observation of Scottish English suggests that there it means "for a relatively short period including this moment" - ie caze'i. Colin