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 JAA20561 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 09:47:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199602141447.JAA20561@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 2D31D36D ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 9:13:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:49:31 GMT Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: sera'aku GEN: almost-PROPOSAL: intervals To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 645 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Feb 20 14:57:43 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - > and I want to say > "It is 10 m from here". I'd say "ko'a zvati [fe'e]xe'i lo mitre be li > pano" (I still don't know if fe'e is necessary, but no other tense works > both spatially and temporally, so I'm putting it in just in case). > xorxes would use {va lo mitre...}, "ko'a valo mitre beli pano zvati" is right on the money. Whether the grammar was constructed with this in mind or not, I understand it exactly and it is what I would use. I was in Glasgow for the last 6 months. mi pu ze'elo zi masti beli xa cu zvati la glasgov. I was in Glasgow 6 months ago. mi puzalo masti beli xa cu zvati la glasgov. co'omi'e dn.