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Re: [lojban] RE: opposite of za'o
la pycyn cusku di'e
{za'o} means "continuing beyond a natural end-point" (roughly -- we'll
ignore
the fine points here).
I took pier to be asking after "stops before a natural end point," which
looks like {co'u} to me.
But isn't {co'u} used for any stop, before, at, or after a
natural end point? If {co'u} does have the implication of
"before the natural end point" then {ba'oco'u} works for
the "no longer" period (since {co'u} by itself is just for
the stopping point, not for the following period). But I think
{co'u} is not so specific.
BUT some other notions have come up, the mirror images of these, it seems
--
or these of the complementary event?
"going before the natural starting point" (stop not going before the
natural
ending point of not going?)
This one is "already", right.
"start well after the natural starting point" ("not going at the natural
starting point" =? keeps on not going after natural time to go?)
I would make a distinction between those two. "start well after"
would be "finally" or "at last". What you have in brackets is
"not yet". "Finally" is what comes after "not yet": {ba'o za'o na},
"the aftermath of the over not".
mi ba'o za'o na se zdani
I am home at last.
All of these seem to get involved in the "still" "already" "yet" complexes.
Comments eagerly sought.
I wish we had a simpler "already" than {na za'o na}.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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