[lojban-beginners] Re: Tenses in abstractions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 28 February 2010 00:59:25 Luke Bergen wrote:
> Yeah, I was trying to keep PU out of it since I believe you said that that
> DOES behave like it describes in the CLL.  I'm still confused by what "I
> eat the apple an event of me sleeping ago" means.  It doesn't read like any
> english I've ever seen.  How do the event of my eating the apple and the
> event of me sleeping relate in time and space according to how I used {za}
> (from your perspective).

It's nonsense. Perfectly grammatical, but nonsense. It means that the time 
difference between eating the apple and now is an event of sleeping. One 
interpretation is "I ate the apple, then immediately fell asleep, and just 
woke up." In that case "zi" would imply that I took a catnap and "zu" that I 
zonked out for more than a day.

Pierre
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