Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id MAA03261 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:40:00 +0200 Message-Id: <199601121040.MAA03261@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 2B0D1ABB ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:39:59 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:42:11 GMT Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: sera'aku le'ala'ezo VRC mela lojban. zei zasni To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 883 Lines: 18 > *te'i is a proposal countered my xorxes' vi/va/vu that never got > decided upon, either positively or negatively, so until I am > forbidden to use it I will do so. For those that do not know, it is a > distance marker, so {pu *te'i lo nanca belivo} means "four years > ago". The only way to say it using the current grammar is {lo nanca > belivo cu temci lenu broda kei ti} ni'o .i .uinai .i .e'u do pilno zo zi .a zo za .a zo zu .i di'e mupli ni'o zoigy. four years ago gy. selfanva fulu puza lo nanca belivo li'u .i zoigy. I started driving two months ago gy. go'i fulu mi co'a to karce toi sazri puza lo masti beli re li'u .i zoigy. I went to Hong Kong many years ago gy. go'i fulu mi puzu lo nanca beli so'o klama la cian. gan. li'u .i zoigy. the day before yesterday, today, tomorrow gy. go'i fulu lo puza djedi lo zi djedi lo bazi djedi li'u ni'o co'omi'e dn.