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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Complicated tenses



http://dag.github.com/cll/10/25/ is the usage I had in mind.

How should one say "ko'a sits 5 meters to the left"?

How do you differentiate between something happening once in an interval (e.g. a woman's period comes every 30 days) vs something happening with an exact time difference (e.g. my graph theory homework is due every 7 days, which happens to be every Monday)?



On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:34 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Feb 21, 3:23 am, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> {di'i} means regularly (over the time interval specified).  Is there a way
> to be more specific about the time between occurrences?  e.g. some event
> happens every 23 days?

da broda pa roi reci djedi

"pa roi reci djedi" is one grammatical unit attached to the bridi "da
broda". In this "PA roi SUMTI" construct, SUMTI specifies the interval
over which the count PA is true.

djedi2 is "one" by default, so "reci djedi" makes "twenty-three of
that which is one full day in duration". Also correct may be "reci
seldei", "a duration which is twenty-three full days". In both cases,
"reci" quantifies a semantic body of a temporal interval, which is
what "pa roi" takes.


> Also, is it just me, or do termsets for explicit magnitudes, especially
> single element ones for explicit distance with vague origin, seem really
> awkward?

If by "termsets" you mean CEhE, PEhE, NUhI and NUhU, the zasni gerna
(http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=zasni+gerna+cenba
+vreji) proposes that they be eliminated except for some special case.

Could you remind me of an example of the usage in question?

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