[lojban-beginners] Re: seldetri

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:24:52PM +0400, Aleksej R. Serdyukov wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >>>>.i ma cu tadji bo cusku be lu le pixra be zo'e ku poi seldetri
> >>>>zo'e li'u ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Am I right that this is ungrammatical
> >>>>for {lo pixra}?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>What?
> >>>
> >>>The sentence is grammatical.  What is it you're wondering
> >>>about?
> >>
> >>The question was - how to say (shortly) "the picture of ... is
> >>dated ..."?
> 
> Ahem, sorry, forgot to answer your one.
> 
> >No, the question was "Is this sentence grammatical?".  My
> >question is, which part of the sentence bothers you?
> >
> >The way to say that is "tu'a le pixra be da cu se detri de", for
> >some da and de.
> 
> I mean that...
> 
> {mi ba do} means "I exist after you exist", right?

s/ba/balvi/

Arguments still regularily erupt over this issue; some are of the
opinion that *only* events can be situated in time, not objects.

> Then doesn't it mean for a picture to be {seldetri} that it exists
> at the date?

See above.  That's why I used tu'a.

-Robin

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