Re: [lojban-beginners] ti

[Robert Slaughter <rslau@mindspring.com>]

On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 22:10 +0100, tijlan wrote:
> What is the pointability of, say, "2012 U.S. presidential election"?
> Can a Californian refer to it by "ti"? Would that make as much sense
> as a Mexican's "ta" or a Kazakh's "tu"?
> 
> mu'o

I've always taken 'ti' to mean in its event-form things like "the voting
here today". And for me 'ta' and 'tu' are always spacial displacement,
never temporal.

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