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> jcowan@reutershealth.com writes:
> Actually it does: "nau" is an absolute tense cmavo meaning "here and now".
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> Nah, that's a modal or tense meaning, "at the speaker axis," not a
> name at all or simti in general at all.
>
Not bad. It is strictly the sentence uttered at here-and-now, not here-and-now itself (as 20:16 CDT is the time of h-n-n, not what it is the time of). But it is the most visible/audible thing to hook deixis on -- for deixis does need a stable hook. Just as a tense system does. And without either a name for h-n-n or the natural rule of Lojban tenses, the predicates system for tenses (et al) won't work (somebody's paper on somebody else's paper in the early 1960's -- probably Barbara Partee and maybe James McCawley in that order).
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