[lojban-beginners] Re: "I Go From Here"

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 11/22/05, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> So I cannot say {*mi klama fi vi} for "I go from here".

That's right. {vi ku} works like a *term*, which is similar to a sumti but
it cannot occupy a numbered place.

The sumti to use for "here" is {ti}. {ti}, {ta}, {tu} can be used to refer
to places near the speaker, near the audience or away from both.

> Is there a cmavo in Lojban converting {vi} in the way it can take place as a
> sumti?
>
> In other words, is there a "tense to sumti" conversion in Lojban?

Not directly. There is an indirect way, though. First you have to notice
that every tense (more generally, every tag) can be written as
{fi'o broda} for some suitable {broda}. For example {ne'i} is {fi'o se nenri},
{pu} is {fi'o se purci}, and so on. It is not always trivial to find the most
suitable brivla. For {vi} I propose {fi'o cmatersei}. Once you have detected
the corresponding brivla, then you can use {lo cmatersei} to refer to a small
separation in space, which is what {vi} indicates, and which can be used
in a numbered place. (It doesn't mean "here", but neither does {vi}.)

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