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[lojban-beginners] Re: ti/ta/tu, zo'e, da

On 8/17/06, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > >
> > > > .i lo munje puzuki citno .i ro cmana cazu crino

I was trying to use "cazu" or "caza" to mean "simultaneous to within X
time period", where X is za or zu. For instance, in certain context
things are only simultaneous if they happen within a few nanoseconds
of each other. In other contexts, that can be seconds, hours, years,
or eons.


Both "the world was young" and "all mountains were green" are very
long events, presumably the intent is that their durations overlap, so
their simultaneity is not a matter of any separation between them,
neither nanoseconds nor years. They are truly simultaneous.


Does "caza" not work for indicating that scope? I realize
that "ca" by itself allows that leeway in simultaneity, but is there a
way to make it explicit?


If we were talking about events separated by some period of time, that
would work, yes. In this case, the events don't seem to be separated by
any period of time, small or large.

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