Re: [lojban-beginners] "Towards the end of..."

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

I'm having a little trouble understanding these tenses.  Probably because of my english.  If I see {mi citka ba lo nu mi xagji} I see how {ba} is saying that the {citka} happens "after" the event of me being hungry.  So {ba} relates two things the selbri and the thing that comes after the {ba}.  But how does that work with something like an event contour like {mo'u}?  There's only one thing in the relationship of {mo'u} and it's the thing that is at its natural ending point.  Is it possible for X to be at it's natural ending point in relation to Y?  And what would that mean anyway?  How does Y come into play with regard to the main selbri?

I think whatever it is, I would agree with you xorxes.  A tag effects the main selbri, not the thing after the tag.  {mi citka mo'u lo nu mi xagji} is saying that I am at the natural ending point of eating <some relationship> the event of me being hungry.

2010/10/11 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

2010/10/11 Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl>:
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> OK, so I agree exceptions are out of the question. But could it be possible to massage the general rule somewhat to make it more, let's say, intuitive, in the sense "how a newbie would understand it"? :)

The general rule is:  <tag> <selbri> = <tag> zo'e <selbri>.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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