Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:45:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712012345.SAA25843@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Sender: Lojban list From: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Subject: Re: dacti X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1247 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 1 18:46:04 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU cu'u la kris >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. It's grammatical Lojban, but not very meaningful. How would you use it? {i pe'i noda nu li vo sumji li re li re} = "There is no such thing as an event of two plus two being four." >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. Yes, but I never said anything about well defined boundaries. In fact, I never even said that events are dacti. All I said was that events that actually happen endure in space-time. If that's the only property that a dacti must have, then events are dacti, if there are more restrictions, then they may not be. i xu ta'o le munje cu dacti Is the universe a dacti, by the way? co'o mi'e xorxes