Re: [lojban-beginners] 'at this time in the past'

["David Gowers (kampu)" <00ai99@gmail.com>]

Wow, that's elegant. Thanks for reminding me of pu'o 's existence.. and that the argument of ca is always implicitly a point in time, so {prulamke'u mintu} disambiguates itself neatly :)

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Friday 08 July 2011 20:45:03 David Gowers (kampu) wrote:
> Hello all, I've continued to learn Lojban although I've been away from the
> IRC and mailing-lists. I recently updated jbofacki to be a lot more useful,
> so if any of you use it, check it out.
>
> To the main subject of this email: How do we transpose time tenses?
>
> The example is, I was watching this Let's Play:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJ3A0xdh5A
> and I uttered this rather time-complex statement: "at this time last time,
> Snake was about to be killed".
>
> {ca le pu cabna ku catra la since}?
> The problem being 'le pu cabna' is underspecified (and sounds like a
> tautology vs 'le purci'). I want to say 'the time in the past iteration
> that corresponds to the present moment in this iteration'.

I suggest "ca le prulamke'u mintu pu'o catra la since".

Pierre
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