From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:45:58 2010 Reply-To: Jorge Llambias Sender: Lojban list Date: Thu Dec 21 11:55:36 1995 From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: `already' X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, jorge@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Thu Dec 21 11:55:36 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Message-ID: la dn mi di'e spuda > > For example: {mi xa'o klama} = "I'm already on my way". > > .i ki'u ma na'e melu mi puco'a klama i ki'u le du'u la'e di'u srana le purci i mi djica le nu tavla le cabna > This particular case is 'in the past I initiated going'. I think that lojban > has all the angles covered for aspect and then some. That doesn't say that you are going in the present. You could say {mi puco'a je ca ca'o klama} = "in the past I initiated going and I am going now", but that could just as well mean "I am still going". There is nothing in {mi puco'a klama} that says that it is happenned before its time. If you say that "already" is not necessary, then {za'o} is equally unnecessary. They are the two sides of the same coin. Jorge