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RE: [lojban-beginners] Why is CAhA a tense/modal?

So what happens if YOU address ME? Do YOU beome I, while I become YOU? Even if written from MY perspective? Consider the context of an autobiography: if somebody addresses the biographer, I is no longer the speaker (despite the fact that you are reading their presentation) as they are the person being addressed, and therefore the listener. At least from one standpoint, anyway.
 
Also, you wouldn't want to introduce problems with sentences such as "You said it to me earlier". I and YOU surely cannot be always considered to be in a fixed role of speaker and listener.
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From: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com [mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Jonathan Jones
Sent: 28 April 2011 16:31
To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Why is CAhA a tense/modal?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:45 AM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:28 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
It's easier to keep I and YOU than forever distinguish between I as speaker and YOU as listener.

Except that I /is/ /always/ the person speaking, and you /is/ /always/ the person listening.

But the person speaking isn't always I (he is to himself, but that's why we need I), nor is the person listening always YOU.
 
stevo

Yes, I am, and yes, you are, because the person "I" refers to is /ALWAYS/ the person saying it, and the person "you" refers to is /ALWAYS/ the person "I" is addressing.

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