[lojban-beginners] Re: beginner questions

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 11/6/07, Steve Salkin <steve@salkin.org> wrote:
>
> In the general case (in other words, without additional context to
> indicate otherwise), would you take the meaning to be understood to be
> with respect to the current/speaker's time?

Yes, without any context, I would say that the speaker's here-and-now
is the most likeley candidate for a reference point.

> If so, it still feels a bit
> awkward to me, although I expect I can grow used to that.

Maybe it's easier if you think of {ze'a gunka} as a separate verb,
say "belabor", and then {pu zu} as the tense marker for that verb,
{pu zu ze'a gunka}.

Compound tenses don't seem to be used very much anyway.

mu'o mi'e xorxes