From - Wed Feb 14 12:51:41 1996 Received: from wnt.dc.lsoft.com (wnt.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.7]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA17919 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:08:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199602131508.KAA17919@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by wnt.dc.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.0a) with SMTP id 379A7390 ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 9:32:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:10:38 +0100 Reply-To: Goran Topic Sender: Lojban list From: Goran Topic Subject: Re: GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1099 > >I believe that the omission of this feature from the current > >language is just an oversight; I think it would be in there if whoever > >made the system had remembered they were needed. > > Whoever made the system did remember they were needed, because > zi/za/zu are precisely there to mark the interval size between the event > and the reference point. There was no omission or oversight. The problem > comes when they are forced to mark the reference point, which is > already the function of the PUs. It makes little sense to have > them duplicating that function. > > I oppose any new cmavo for this simply because I'm perfectly happy > with what the current grammar provides. (The same applies to the > lambda variable, btw.) My usage may be slightly at odds with a small > part of the tense paper, but I'll just have to live with that. In any > case, it is perfectly grammatical. .i ja'ago'i .iku'i lego'i cu frica le cnano noi ca'a puze'a pilno no'i ri'a lenu loi vajni cu jdice ledu'u tu'a zo va co'a cnano keikei mi gleki pilno zo va zu'i co'o mi'e. goran.