Re: [lojban] A set of questions

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/11/2001 1:59:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
lojbab@lojban.org writes:

More interesting (no idea whether it has been discussed) would be the
corresponding front end "natural starting point", in which case we could
talk about that period in which the bridi holds "too soon" with a mirror
tense of za'o.  But we have neither of these because pc did not tell be
that such tenses were found in some natural language, whereas the
superfective za'o is found (you'll have to ask pc which language(s) though).

There has been a discussion of the mirror image of {za'o} and related
concepts (mirror of {mo'u}, I suppose), but I don't remember the outcome
offhand.  It probably got a RECORD if anything was decided, but we probably
just tossed it around a lot.
{za'o} may occur as a regular tense form in some language, though I can't
name one offhand, but it certainly occurs as a living idiom in most
languages, "keep on" in English and I think the discussion of {za'o} and it
mirror contained quite a number from other languages on which the group has
pros. (one {za'o) ran in mid June last year, and the one on the mirror image
toward the end of June and into July.  The irst ended in a RECORD, the second
did not, but does seem ot have touched on something like the period between
{co'u) and {mo'u} in that order.)