From - Wed Feb 14 12:50:42 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 FAA11906 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:27:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199602131027.FAA11906@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 CB5567E5 ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 4:54:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 04:50:15 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals To: topic@STUDENT.MATH.HR Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1337 >> without going into aracnaities like >> ca'o le puzi nanca belipimu > >during the close-past .5-year > >This can, on the other hand, mean that I went to Glasgow a week ago, >since that was also during a recent half-year. No go. > >Something in that line almost works, though: > >... co'a le puzi nanca belipimu That was my intent - at the inception of the previous adjacent 6 month period. >But I find it clumsy. Less so than using temci, but also less precise. Not sure why it seems less precise. Inchoative is a point event. and we are define the point by means of the interval. Clumsy - well that is an aesthetic consideration and one you may be better able to make than I. Especially since you are a native speaker of a language with perfectives. BTW>> ca'o le puzi nanca belipimu > >during the close-past .5-year should mean under perfective languages that I went throughout the close-past .5 year, and hence that I was in Glasgow for the last 6 months, not for a short period within that 6 months. At least from my Russian understandings the use of a perfective when describing two events means that they coexist in time, and I have read at least the strong implication that one even is not substantially different in time spread than the other. Is this true for Croatian? lojbab