From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:57:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 18158 invoked from network); 29 Jan 1997 19:27:36 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 29 Jan 1997 19:27:36 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <7.50EE9B83@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:27:31 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:20:10 -0700 Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Organization: Quetzal Subject: Re: A question about space tenses X-To: lojban%cuvmb.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 741 Lines: 22 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!