From - Thu Feb 15 10:22:51 1996 Received: from access4.digex.net (ql/6O0AY1b.Cw@access4.digex.net [205.197.245.195]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id GAA21527 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 06:50:12 -0500 Received: (from lojbab@localhost) by access4.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id GAA00519 ; for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 06:16:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 06:16:16 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199602151116.GAA00519@access4.digex.net> To: cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG Subject: Re: sera'aku GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1564 >I'm not sure I understand this notion of an "anchored" interval. However, we > can >specify how an interval is anchored WRT the time specified by postposing a PU >after the ZEhA, thus: > > ze'apu a medium interval, extending before the referenced point > ze'aca a medium interval, centered on the referenced point > ze'aba a medium interval, extending after the referenced point > >Does this do what you want? John, you understand what I mean by anchoring the interval quite well, but this does not help, so far as I know, when trying to tcita a distance, as in the examples being discussed. We want "pu" a 6 month interval which is extending before (an unspecified reference point) - or maybe we want pu'o/co'a that same interval. But puze'apu almost certianly groups wrong likewise pu'oze'apu, and a variety of other formulations. We have too many things we are trying to attach to one tag: that the space time reference is the default, not the tagged sumti That the tagged sumti represents a distance from the reference. These could be combined by saying: the reference is the interval represented by the taged sumti which is immediately adjacent and preceding the space-time reference. Which MAY be expressable as something like puza lo nanca belipimu peze'apu which may or may bot need some number of terminators in real sentences. But I won'pretend to assume that the above works - does it indeed indicate that the 1/2-year is ze'apu the reference? Would po'uze'apu do better? lojbab