From - Tue Feb 20 14:57:58 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA07207 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:53:28 -0500 Message-Id: <199602151953.OAA07207@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 0508867E ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:19:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:20:50 -0300 Reply-To: "Jorge J. Llambias" Sender: Lojban list From: "Jorge J. Llambias" Subject: Re: sera'aku GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1114 la dn joi la lojbab: >>>> > >mi klama la glazgov. puza lo nanca belipimu >>> I still read this as a medium time before some 6 month period. >>Surely the event should immediately follow PU and the distance immediately >>follow ZA. >It is possible to have >complex tense-tagss that have multiple zi/za/zu/ze'i/ze'a/ze'u in them, >and you do not want to rely on whichever the tense grammar makes to fall in >final position to be the determining factor in deciding what specifically is >the relationship of the sumti to everything else. Is that an official position? Last time I asked nobody knew how to take a sumti tagged by {puba'o}, for example. Is it governed by {pu} or by {ba'o}? (Since the rules for those two are utterly different, the two choices give drastically different meanings.) From what you say here, I take it that it is governed by {pu}, is that right? My interpretation has always been the one given by Don, by the way. I interpret {pu za } the same as {puza} as a selbri tcita, only with added precision in the origin and the size of the shift. Jorge