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[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #187

> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:21:47 -0800
> From: "Theodore Reed" <ted.reed@gmail.com>
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: klama, go, come, travel
> 
> On 11/10/06, Jon MacLeod <eye_onus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was doing some thinking on my way home last night, and this occurred to
> > me:
> >
> > The English words, go, come, and travel (as verb) mean exactly the same
> > thing,
> > except for the difference of an impled spatial tense in the words go and
> > come.
> >
> > Making the implicit tense explicit in Lojban:
> >
> > go:     zo'e vi klama zo'e
> > come:   zo'e klama zo'e vi
> > travel: zo'e klama zo'e
> >
> Just thought I'd point out that your use of tenses makes those not quite
> mean what you intend. vi can't fill sumti places. The first two of those
> both mean roughly "Near here, someone goes."
> 
> You'd be better off using ti, which can be a sumti:
> 
> zo'e klama zo'e ti
> zo'e klama ti zo'e

I must have placed the word incorrectly. It was my intention that the vi be
attached to the adjacent zo'e, as in '(something unspecified) close by', not to
fill a sumti place with vi.

Perhaps 'vi zo'e klama zo'e' and 'zo'e klama vi zo'e'?

mi'e .topy'at.

"I have a brain, I've just lost my mind." -Ian McLeod

"As a percentage of total universal knowledge, what I know is statistically insignificant." - me


 
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