[lojban-beginners] Re: ko ba cu gleki ca'o le citsi

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Matt Arnold wrote:

> Is {ko ba cu gleki ca'o le citsi} correct for "Imperative-you future-tense
> be happy/merry/glad/gleeful during the season/cyclic interval"?

Mostly.  I'm a little surprised you can put the {ba} in front of the {cu},
but jbofi'e likes it fine.  I personally would have used {ko cu ba gleki
li'o} or just {ko ba gleki li'o}.

Actually, I'm not sure what happens when you mix the {ba} with the {ca'o}.
That is, I'm not sure whether it's saying that you be happy after now, during
the season, or be happy after the during-the-season.  It should work fine
without the {ba}, though.

> Is this a correct use of an event interval? Is {le citsi} just acting as a
> modifier of the {ca'o} tense, or is it serving for the x2 place?

It's fine syntactically.  The {le citsi} is binding to {ca'o}.  There's a
little ambiguity concerning whether {broda ca'o ko'a} means that {broda} is
ongoing during a time including {ko'a} (which seems to be the more modern
take on it, and working its way through BPFK) or whether the {ko'a} is
ongoing during a time including {broda} (which seems to be what CLL somewhat
illogically recommends).  Of course, for {ca'o} the difference is small
compared with, say, {pu'o}.

This is probably more than you wanted to know, though.  Short answer is yes,
it works.

> I don't want to tell people to be happy "about" the season, just during it.

That does it.
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Adam Lopresto
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