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



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

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