[lojban-beginners] Tenses and Event Contours

[volcpitar <apeal@comcast.net>]

ni'o coi rodo i mi cnino mrilu i ku'i mi cire'u ca troci co vlicu'u fo
lo lojbo i a'isai iiru'ero'e mi troci co cusku lo pamoi pagbu be le
dei bau lo lojbo te zu'e lo pu'u cilre zenba i pe'u do ga'unai drazu'e
ro da poi selsrera be mi co tergerna se cusku ja cu'u tadji i le dei
se jersi lo glico xelfanva be le dei   

ni'o mi puza tcidu lo se casnu po'u lo jai ta'i cmene lo djecmi be lo
jefveldetri i ta'o xu lo bi'u jai ta'i cmene mo'u se
kampytugni i ta'onai ja'ebo mi na crici lo du'u lo ni mi djuno fi lo
lojbo ke temci se cusku cu banzu i lo di'e cu so'ore'u preti i li'o
mi'e la volcpitar      

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum, although this is my third time trying to learn
Lojban.  I am going to try to write the first part of this in Lojban
so that I can learn better.  Please correct any mistakes in grammar or
style.

I was reading a discussion about how to express the days of the week
(By the way has there been any consensus yet about how to name them?),
and this led me to realize that there were still many things I did not
understand about time expressions.  Below are some questions I have:

1. Do ba'o and pu'o imply "shortly after" and "shortly before" or "any
time after" and "any time before"?

2.  Can "ZA" tag points in time?  If so, do these points indicate the
reference for the distance expressed by "ZA"?  I read something on a
"checkpoint" or "proposed checkpoint" that seemed to say something
different.

3. Where does it say that the meaning of MOI can go beyond expressions
of time and include such meanings as " mi moi = "mine"?  


 

   

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