Jorge Llambías wrote:
On jbovlaste I found "anticipate", which uses balvi, not purci (you created the entry). The others I did not find.On 2/28/06, Stephen Simmons <ssimmons@pcisys.net> wrote:how does one express the idea of predicting the future in lojban? cusku balvi is the best tanru I could come up with, but it doesn't have the right place structure;"predict", "foretell", "anticipate" all use {purci} rather than {balvi}. I suggest {prujungau}.
I think prujungau works in the sense of le skami cu prujungau le nu le solri cu spoja However it makes it look too definite, as in the knowledge is infallible.Pierre's idea of balvi xusra doesn't require it to be a correct prediction, but only claims the person/thing making the assertion believes it to be true. This, in my case, would often be further modified by cumki, as in {balvi cumki bo xusra}, as in I have knowledge ahead of time that it should be taken with a grain of salt. Perhaps the same could be applied to prujungau, though I still think you need the "bo".
(Of course, the prediction comes _before_ the predicted, but the
predicted comes _after_ the prediction, so either {purci} or {balvi}
works depending on how you look at it.)
for that matter, how does one express place structure in lojban?]{sumti stura}?
Right
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