Re: [lojban] translation challenge: "If today is Monday..."

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/14/2001 6:58:27 PM Central Daylight Time, cowan@ccil.org writes:

In English, "today" and "tomorrow" are normally token-reflexive, then,
but in this sentence are used in the senses "a day" and "the successor
of that day".

The Lojban predicate "bavlamdei", though, in fact means "x1 is the
successor-day of x2", but with an ap

The first is not obviously the case.  "If today is Monday"  deems to be about today, whatever day that is and is true only on Mondays, similarly "tomorrow."  {bavlamdei} does in fact mean "future adjacent day to" and so "tomorrow" if today is taken as x2.  But {cabdei} just means plain old "today" since tense {ca} is token reflexive, too.