Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0r3Y63-00005bC; Sat, 5 Nov 94 01:31 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8850; Sat, 05 Nov 94 01:31:17 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 8845; Sat, 5 Nov 1994 01:30:33 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0855; Sat, 5 Nov 1994 00:14:11 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 17:28:04 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Cowan weighs in #5: tenses X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 460 Lines: 10 I think that Lojban tenses don't imply any quantification over time, space, or mode; they are the analogues of singular terms, and commute with negation, as Jorge says. pc's order "modal temporal spatial negation" is new to me. This is the last "weighs in" for today: there may be more next week as I reread the last 250 messages or so. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.