Re: [lojban-beginners] Mixing tenses

[".iuROK." <yurock.tengo@gmail.com>]

> That information, however, does not have a direct relation to the truth value of the main bridi, which the sumti is a part of. It does not matter how we refer, only what we refer to.

I want to stress that I was talking specifically about the truth value of the main bridi. In other aspects, specific form of sumti may be important. One example: {lo broda ku brode} implies {lo brode ku broda}. That may be important if the listener does not know the referent. At least he now knows that {da broda gi'e brode}. If the bridi was {zo'e brode} (which has the same truth value), the listener would gather less information from it: {da brode}. On the other hand, if the listener already knows the referent and that it is/does broda, {zo'e brode} gives him exactly the same information as {lo broda ku brode}.

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