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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:05:27 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>
Subject: Re: Verbs [FWD from AUXLANG]
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> Paul O Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Michael Farris wrote:
> >
> > > [cut]
> >
> > > mi is acheti    - I bought it, I used to buy it (done and over)
> >
> >     I would consider "I used to by it," referring to a habitual or
> > repeated action, as an IMperfective in the past.
> 
> Imperfective in the past would surely be the English Past Progressive,
> though this also frequently, if not usually has the sense of an
> interruptive.
> 
> Robin Turner

I was wondering what an interruptive would be in Lojban e.g. "I
was leaving the house when the phone rang" (implying that I
stopped and went back to answer it).  {co'u} would work (or
{de'a} if it was a mobile phone!), but doesn't carry the sense of
an action being interrupted by something else.

co'o mi'e robin.