[lojban-beginners] Re: Tenses in abstractions

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Sam Chapin <not.here.now@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, I see. Under your scheme {va co'e} conveys the same meaning by a
> different mechanism - "something happens a moderate (but otherwise
> unspecified) distance from the speaker", rather than "something
> happens a moderate distance away from (unspecified, but by default)
> the speaker".

Yes, "va co'e" in both cases says that something happens a moderate
(but otherwise unspecified) distance away from the origin (probably
the speaker).

The difference is in which part of the unspecification would be
provided by the tagged sumti. The other part, if needed, has to be
provided by other means.

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