[lojban-beginners] Re: cu'e

[turnip <turnip@bcpl.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com> =====
>On 8/21/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is
>> {do bacu'e cliva}
>> possible by way of questioning which temporal distance (zi/za/zu) is true?
>
>I suppose, although the grammar of {cu'e} is not the same as that
>of ZA. I don't think {cu'e} is a very useful word.

  bacu'e is ugnrammatical... see LRG (CLL), Chapter 10:
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The only way to combine ``cu'e'' with other tense cmavo is through logical 
connection, which makes a question that pre-specifies some information:

24.9)    do puzi je cu'e sombo le gurni
    You [past] [short] and [when?] sow the grain?
    You sowed the grain a little while ago;
        when else do you sow it?
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       --gejyspa