Re: [lojban] Tenseless predicates mean -able?

[TR NS <transfire@gmail.com>]

On Friday, September 26, 2014 9:05:20 AM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:

To explicitly express "-able" use {ka'e} adverb.

i la alis ka'e se ctuca = Alice is possible to be taught.

i la alis ka'e ba mo'u cilre = It is possible that Alice will learn [something].

i la alis cu tadni = Alice is/was/will be a student.

That's what I expected. So Lojban (if not Loglan itself) dropped this whole notion of capability. That's interesting b/c if you read this section JCB seems quite adamant about it, as if it were the whole point of not specifying tense.

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