Received: from mail-vb0-f60.google.com ([209.85.212.60]:62694) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UWuvf-00043B-Ui; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:44:12 -0700 Received: by mail-vb0-f60.google.com with SMTP id x14sf122782vbb.5 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:44:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-received:x-beenthere:x-received:received-spf:from:to:subject:date :message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post :list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=5gPiG1ABu+ssG2ksZ2K4oGHRgckSX6PbFmM8k+jJiKQ=; b=ilsUlsJ+EEM4aWd3uBh6p8JHW10n7I2DGlyRwNy/VuSGKhC8F2tuotXRfw5ykWm7mV RDBk2Mz32HrwMVzRF317OMALZcUbrJlsBWqNJ+tkwDXcJZctbuhZMkd7nemlx+fbG+83 Q1C9P6EeXxKGKM+4hblu3++Bcjw2AgWLqvFFu1ZVyWaC47syxOhXAx5G0jwjg8xpWiBa gkN8h5kYFbfvSW4plDQG4mfQtLU8u41UVFYBUzu99/PFBQ0VfAqa/1tuU0aKHv5q0EeM LDl3ZTRFkzBzl089UDVePKKlM9Ry4V5pBFj0lbyy/IUdvKvZbyHrzo55IjgdJ5DhIjHr Yi8w== X-Received: by 10.49.86.98 with SMTP id o2mr2449443qez.4.1367268241280; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:44:01 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.49.121.37 with SMTP id lh5ls2631105qeb.66.gmail; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.236.91.206 with SMTP id h54mr28611799yhf.27.1367268239836; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chausie ([2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id i36si75218yhb.3.2013.04.29.13.43.59 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) client-ip=2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5; Received: from caracal.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104FD1E50E for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:44:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Mixing tenses Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:43:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3628787.k2TgisVrPR@caracal> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.5 (Linux/3.2.0-39-generic; KDE/4.8.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: phma@bezitopo.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 2001:470:8:42:2c0:f0ff:fe3b:b5b5 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of phma@bezitopo.org) smtp.mail=phma@bezitopo.org Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / Content-Length: 1161 On Monday, April 29, 2013 13:31:54 mudri wrote: > This is something I've wanted to ask for a while. I can't find a good way > to compare two non-LE-based sumti that are specifically from different > tenses. >=20 > I can say =93x is more than y used to be=94 by saying {lo ca broda cu zma= du lo > pu brode}. But if the sumti are {ko'a} and {ko'e}, I have to resort to {l= o > ca me ko'a cu zmadu lo pu me ko'e}, which seems less than optimal. >=20 > Is that the way it's done? Or is there something on the bridi level? Could you post an example with specific x and y? It may be easier to sugges= t=20 something. Pierre --=20 li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den= . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.