[lojban-beginners] Re: zo bo

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

On 4/1/08, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  For pu, ca, ba you can always make the relationship explicit like this:
> >
> >  broda .i pu bo brode -> lo nu brode cu purci lo nu broda
> >  broda .i ca bo brode -> lo nu brode cu cabna lo nu broda
> >  broda .i ba bo brode -> lo nu brode cu balvi lo nu broda
> >
> >  For {nau}, I would expect some selbri to express the nau-relationship:
> >
> >  broda .i nau bo brode -> lo nu brode cu nau zei co'e lo nu broda
> >
> >  but I'm not sure what that relationship would be.
>
> My example has {pu} in relation to {nau}. So:
>
> pu broda .i nau bo brode -> lo nu broda cu nau purci lo nu brode (or,
> lo nu broda cu purci lo nu nau brode)

But won't {lo nu nelci} always remain in the past of {lo nu prami}, not
just right now? And the fact that right now they are in the purci
relationship with one another doesn't tell us which one of the two
(if any) is happening right now.

In any case, I wasn't really asking for a rephrasing, but for a selbri
such that {nau} = {fi'o xxxxx}. Once we have that selbri, and assuming
it has two arguments, we know how {nau} behaves as a connective.

mu'o mi'e xorxes