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

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

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.

-- 
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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