Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 11:19:47 +0100
From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: coi za'e jboterymri
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To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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> la and joi mi za'o katna loi mokca di'e
> > > > juocui mi krici i do zabna se tcaci lo sohi nu katna le mokca
> > > i lu katna le mokca li'u ue  i e'o doi goran ko sidju
> > kiu ma? lu katna le mokca liu se cusku tahi le ka sidbo simsa cei
>                                                                 ^^^no'u
kie, jaa ija lu {le ka sidbo simsa cei me lae zoi gy metaphor gy} liu,
xu?
> > lae zoi gy metaphor
> i iacu'i  i ganai da na'e kakne le nu selkatna gi da mokca
 
gohi i je kiu bo mapti fi le nu kamsmisni
 
> i lu katna le mokca li'u se smuni le du'u gasnu lo na'e cumki
 
do cao katna le mokca a le bae tcemlinalmokca - oinaipei?
 
> > > > > i mi za'o naljimpe
> > Okay - you used {zao} to mean "still".
> That's what it means, isn't it? I wish there was a word for its
> counterpart "already", for something that is happening before
> its natural/expected starting point. I wouldn't mind a new ZAhO
> for that.
 
Would the grammar allow {zaonai}, or some combination with {pu},
for "already" (and with {ba} for "still")?
 
I had understood {zao} differently. I thought it is for events the
technical term for which is "accomplishments" (and to which I suspect
{puu} is supposed to correspond), that have an inherent point of
completion, where the activity that brings about the accomplishment
continues after the result has been accomplished. For example, you
could paint a door until it is painted, but then continue to paint
it. That would, I had supposed, be superfective painting. But I
haven't encountered this notion outside Lojban (the index to Comrie's
to'e brilliant book on aspect has no entry for Superfective).
 
> > > i la'e zoi gy purple prose gy klesi loi prosa ma?
> > te gohi ka jgena plana tolmilxe kairbarokoko dukse
> xamgu mupli ki'e
 
mupli pehisehinaipei? oi oi!
 
coo, mie And