[lojban-beginners] Duration questions

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

Do duration questions force you to make an assumption about the relative length of the duration? That is, as I understand it a typical duration question might be:
.i ti zdani do ze'a ma
roughly "how long have you been living in this house?", with the expectation that the duration to come is moderate in length. (Not sure if I should have another tense in there like {ca'o}, but that's another question.) And yet, it seems like if the answer were, say, {lo cabdei} (imagining the person just moved in today), that the corresponding sentence would be:
.i ti zdani mi ze'i lo cabdei
since living in a house for a day is a pretty short time, as time spent living in houses goes. Is there any way around this implicit assumption, short of asking a slightly different question like "when did you move into this house?"?

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