[bpfk] Changing the definitions of {ba'o} and {co'i}

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

1.

ba'o is currently defined (according to CLL) as

     ba'o    ZAhO                perfective

If we are to use normal linguistic terminology then this is wrong.

{ba'o} is perfect, not perfective - those are completely different things.

According to Wikipedia it's better to avoid using the term "perfect" and change to "retrospective".

So I propose changing the definition of ba'o to

     ba'o    ZAhO                retrospective

2.

As for "perfective" it looks like it's expressed using {co'i}.

Another independent proposal is that co'i should be defined as 

     co'i    ZAhO                perfective/achievative

"perfective" is used quite extensively when describing Chinese and Russian grammar so normalising terminology is a must pe'i.

Neither proposal changes anything in Lojban itself, only in translation.

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