From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:57:35 2010 Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list Date: Wed Jan 29 14:45:38 1997 From: Chris Bogart Organization: Quetzal Subject: Re: A question about space tenses X-To: lojban%cuvmb.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: a2e4da869de74f35102c8e20bbb8f121 Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 741 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jan 29 14:45:38 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: Logical Language Group wrote: > I would have no problem with > le xrabo cu mo'izu'a ciska > > >Well, there are examples in the refgrammar that use mo'i in the bridi > >to show motion of a sumti. > > I'd have to look them over, but in many cases, movement of x1 implies > movement of the event. I guess this may be cultural, but of you are > talking to me as you approach, I could see the event of talking as > approaching me as well. How would the reader know, in your example, that you don't mean that le xrabo (is that really the right gadri?) is writing something while moving to the left? -- ____ Chris Bogart \ / http://www.quetzal.com Boulder, CO \/ cbogart@quetzal.com Fuck Censorship!