Re: [lojban-beginners] Mixing tenses

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:

While this parses, it's...philosophically subtle at best. I think of {mi} and {do} as being temporally nonlocal, which means you can't restrict their referent by specifying a time, since they "exist in many times in the first place. I think if you want to specify a time it should be the time of an event, which is why I suggested the version that I did above. Similar issues ensue with the {me} version.

As you say, that's more a philosophical issue than a linguistic one. Presumably you would have the same type of objections to English expresions like "my old self", "the new me",  "you as a teenager", and so on.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

 

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