Received: from MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 4 Aug 1993 05:23:18 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 4 Aug 1993 05:23:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199308040923.AA04263@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0548; Wed, 04 Aug 93 05:22:08 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 1840; Wed, 04 Aug 93 05:23:29 EDT Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 10:21:35 +0100 Reply-To: Colin Fine Sender: Lojban list From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: On the tense system of ZAhO To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Ukn Aug 4 05:23:19 1993 X-From-Space-Address: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK I concur with Jorge that Bob is making a specious distinction in order to explain something that, on hindsight, was an error. ZAhO fit into imaginary journeys, but for historical reasons two of them were given words with inappropriate etymologies. It is true that they work differently from PU when used as sumti tcita, but that is not a reason to run the imaginary journey the wrong way. Colin