Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rWGn3-00007TC; Mon, 23 Jan 95 06:54 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id GAA02244 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 06:54:07 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HM69A4N3U8000IM7@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 04:49:40 +0200 (EET) Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2999; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 05:50:46 +0100 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 23:51:40 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: whiskey lovers Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: Logical Language Group Message-id: <01HM69A58K5Y000IM7@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: topic@math.hr X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 861 Lines: 30 Anticipative aspect is the norm for perfective tense. I don't know the Croatian equivalents for the Russian but using govorit' for imperfective talking skazat' for perfective saying which is the standard Russian pair. Ya govoryu I am talking (imperfective = Lojban ca/ca'a/ca'o Ya govoril I was talking (imperfective past = Lojban pu) Ya budu govorit' I will be talking (imperfective future - lojban ba) Ya skazhu I am about to say (perfective future = anticipative - pu'o Ya skazal I have completed saying (perfective past = perfective - ba'o) Of course Croatian need not be identical to Russian in how it handles perfectives, but I thought I had read somewhere that the basic structure I described above, if not necessarily parallel ways to say it was pretty standard in the Slavic languages. Feel free to correect me if I am wrong. lojbab