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Re: [lojban-beginners] Why is CAhA a tense/modal?
CAhA is a TAG so it works in at lot of the same ways that the other modals/tenses do. Just because something is syntacticly possible doesn't mean that it has to be semantically useful.
The way that I have come to think of tags is that they add tense-like information to the selbri and then since tense-like information is only useful if you know what the anchor point is, you follow the tag with a sumti to describe, for example, what {broda} is {ba} TO. {mi citka ba lo nu mi xagji} is saying that I eat in the future. The future to what? To that time when I am hungry. Therefore, I eat in the future of the event of I am hungry.
So as to what {broda ka'e lo nu brode} means... I don't know. An event that happens "in the future" is "in the future" TO some other event. The selbri is an "innate capability" in reference to what? Maybe the entity that is {ka'e}. {citka lo muno sovda ka'e la .luk.} -> {citka lo muno sovda} is {ka'e}. {ka'e} to what? To {la .luk.}. i.e. {la .luk. kakne lo nu citka lo muno sovda}. I dunno... that's how it would make the most sense to me. But it's late and I'm sleepy so if I'm off please forgive my ramblings. One of the jbocre will be along to set us straight shortly.
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