From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:47:30 2010
Subject: Re: tenses
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
From: cowan
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 09:55:58 -0400 (EDT)
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la xorxes. cusku di'e

> In my opinion {co'a} makes a claim about the
> start of the event only, in no way suggesting that the event will
> ever be completed.

True.  But I think it does claim that the event will start; an event which
never starts is no event at all.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.