Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id QAA06116 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:15:33 +0200 Message-Id: <199602141415.QAA06116@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id BDE6ED93 ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:15:30 +0100 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: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 645 Lines: 17 > 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.