Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:00:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712010400.XAA24040@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Subject: Re: dacti X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 988 X-From-Space-Date: Sun Nov 30 23:00:28 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Lojbab asks and Xorxes replies: >>You are claiming that an event is a dacti??! I don't think of an = event >>as an object. Indeed, it may even be to'e dacti on some scale. > >Events that happen certainly occupy space and last in time, so that >I suppose you're not objecting to the "endure in space-time" bit, >right? I'm dubious: for one thing, "nu" doesn't seem quite like an English = event; {le nu li ci cu zmadu li re} seems like possibly good lojban but = not an "event", and I can't think how much space or time it might = occupy. Even with more concrete events that could still be a problem: with {lenu = mi ciksi da poi mi pu gasnu}, "The event of: I explain what I did", the = event could be said to last an indefinite period of time and take up an = indefinite amount of space -- suppose what I did was historically = critical, and the {terciksi} are a classroom full of students watching a = video, 5000 years in the future on planet 100 light years away. co'o mi'e kris