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Reply-To: Jorge LLambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
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From: Jorge LLambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: On the tense system
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> ___mi morsi ba'o lenu mi jmive___
> I am dead in the aftermath of the event of my being alive
>
> ___mi morsi ca lenu mi ba'o jmive___
> I am dead at the time of the event of my being in the aftermath of being alive
>
>
> The second does not exclude the possibility of
> ___mi morsi pu lenu mi ba'o jmive___
> I am dead before the time of the event of my being in the aftermath of being
 alive
>
> The first specifically puts you in the aftermath of that event of being alive.
>

so  the first means: I'm dead in the aftermath of my living, and I was not dead
before that.

This seems to be including more meaning than ba'o has. Is my having been dead
before really excluded?

Jorge