[lojban-beginners] Re: ago

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 1/17/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com> wrote:
> How would one say something like "Three days ago, I went to the
> store"? Or, in general, "[time period] ago"?

This is how *I* say it:

     mi pu klama le zarci za lo djedi be li ci

zi/za/zu indicate a time displacement from the reference point,
and tag the magnitude of the displacement. vi/va/vu indicate
a time displacement from the reference point, and tag the
magnitude of the displacement.

That is not, however, how CLL would say it. CLL would use an
ad-hoc construction involving termsets and {la'u}

Similar cases are {[ba] za lo djedi be li ci} for "three days hence",
and {va lo mitre be li ci} for "three meters away".

See:
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+Distance&bl>

mu'o mi'e xorxes