Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Duration questions

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>   So you will be official if you use ze'i ko'a, ze'a ko'a,
> ze'u ko'a to all mean the same thing for any given value of ko'a,
> despite the illogic of having different cmavo meaning the exact same
> thing when specified, but different things when not specified,

But they don't mean the exact same thing. "ze'i" indicates that
whatever the duration is, it is a short duration, and "ze'u" indicates
that it is a long one.

It is the exact same difference that exists between:

ko'a krafamtei lo nu broda
ko'a cortu krafamtei lo nu broda
ko'a clani krafamtei lo nu broda
ko'a cimni krafamtei lo nu broda

They don't all mean the same thing, even though they all say that ko'a
is the duration of the brodaing.

> and
> using ze'e ko'a to always mean "the entire span of the universe's past
> and future existence", for ANY value of ko'a, despite the illogic of
> specification meaning absolutely nothing.

"ze'e ko'a" is not very useful, true, except for exageration. But
then, so is "forever" in English, as in "he's been in the bathroom
forever".

>  So you will excuse me for trying to bring logic to a "logical language" :-D

I am, of course, all in favour of logic. I still don't see it in your
method though. I think it breaks the normal pattern of tags.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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