Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:30:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712071730.MAA03797@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: ca'a/pu'i X-To: jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1003 X-From-Space-Date: Sun Dec 7 12:30:43 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >>>Something to do with tenses, I suppose: {ca'a} contains an >>>implied {ca} and {pu'i} an implied {pu}. > > >>The answer is that ca'a and pu'i are orthogonal to standard tense usage. >>They relate to potentiality of an event to occur, and not whether it >actually >>occurs. > >Isn't {ca'a} = "actually occurs" and {pu'i} = "actually occurred"? >How can they not relate to whether the event actually occurs? doi lojbab: engage brain before hitting keyboard. I meant: They relate to potentiality of an event to occur, and not WHEN it actually occurs. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.