Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sBMyX-0009acC; Tue, 16 May 95 16:47 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id DD9FC6B7 ; Tue, 16 May 1995 15:47:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:43:05 BST Reply-To: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: proposals X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 582 Lines: 14 pc said: > I can't recommend reading Fennimore Cooper (see Mark Twain's lit crit), > but I just noticed that he does a lot of using time markers for space: a > place is two days away and the like. We could unpack this, of course, to > "the distance we could walk in two days" or some such, but that seems > unnecessary -- except that not doing so means we need tensor markers for > both time and space, not just a single one for both. za'a cu'u so'i lo merpre lo ni lo tcadu cu simdarno cu na'o se cacra gi'enai se minli .i cu'u mi noi ritpre ku na'o to'e go'i mu'o mi'e kolin