| In a message dated 11/30/2000 5:03:12 PM Central Standard Time, Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de writes: There was a man named Po-ya who knew to play the Ch'in very well. I don't think "There was" would be {puzu zasti} functionally. For the most part, the function of "there was" is to delay the subject a bit, a stylistic rather than a content form. Lojban could accomplish in a variety of ways: by shifting to VSO order, by putting in a prenex form {da poi pu nanmu zo'u} ({da se cmene ...}), and probably others. Most of your problem words seem to be similar empty expressions. |