Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 19:00:44 -0500
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab>
Message-Id: <199501210000.AA19502@access3.digex.net>
To: lojbab@access.digex.net, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
Subject: ki le ckule
Status: RO

>> I have NO idea what that "ki" is supposed to mean.
>
>Is it really so weird? I thought it was more or less evident.
>Given that {ki} marks the origin, all I meant was that {le ckule}
>was the origin.

Ah maybe you wanted
"viki le ckule ko'a va kelci"

But note that this is a lasting change to the space-time reference that
carries on until another "ki" or an appropriate number of "ni'o"s

>What does {ki le ckule} mean, then? Or is that another of those
>meaningless constructions that And likes so much?  :)

Probably "do'eki le ckule", whatever that means ...

"ki" by itself cancels any existing special default-reference set at
some earlier point.  Being a piece of a tense, it can serve as a sumti
tcita by itself, but what that sumti tcita means is very vague... and
lasting until the next "ki" as the new space time reference..

lojbab