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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:31:24 -0500
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: lo lunra selgusni ninmu
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At the risk of putting my foot in my miouth (usual when I argue with Jorge)

At 09:27 AM 2/27/99 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?= wrote:
>can i give
>>a bridi more than one tense?  
>
>Yes, and the way to do it is what you have above. It is also possible
>to join tenses with logical connectors, but that gives a different
>meaning. For example: {ko'a mi puzu je bazu xanjai} means 
>"she held my hand long ago and she will hold my hand in the
>future", i.e. possibly two separate events, whereas {ko'a mi 
>puzuku bazuku xanjai} describes a single event, which is,
>I believe, what you want in this case.

Not knowing what he wanted, this seems to be a compound tense involving an
imaginaryjouney a long way into the past and then relative to that, a long
way into the future - in short back to the present - maybe soemthing like
"a long time ago was eventually going to do/be X"

You can also use non-logical connectives.  "once and future king" as pujeba
or as pujoiba gives a different flavor.

>>& can i attach an attitudinal to a tense?)
>
>Yes, attitudinals can be attached to most anything.

But technically, if in the middle of a stream of compound tenses, you
should insert an attitudinal only after breaking the compound into pieces
with ku

lojbab