Re: TECH: situation types

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

Jorge:
> ZAhOs, ZEhAs and TAhEs should be freely combinable in any order. The
> current restriction doesn't make much sense, given that, for example
> {co'a jimpe} can have a short, medium, long or no duration, and
> {ze'a jimpe} can have a start, an end, an aftermath, etc.

> NOTE2: I agree with And that aspectuals should really be like NAhEs,
> that attach to brivla rather than to a whole selbri. This applies
> to all of them, not just the ZAhOs. For example, we could have:
>        ko'a citno ba'o ralju
>        He is a young ex-president.
>        ko'a ba'o citno ralju
>        He is an ex-young president.
>        ko'a ba'o ke citno ralju
>        He is an ex young-president.
>        ko'a ta'e gleki reroi ralju
>        He is a usually-happy two-times-president.
>        ko'a roroi gleki ze'u citno co'a ralju
>        He is an always-happy long-time-young starting-president.

Absolutely. This is obviously much better than the present situation.

I shan't recommend that the grammar be officially changed now, because
apparently Lojban Central wants to rush out books describing a
demonstrably flawed grammar, and making improvements retards this
process. In another posting I'll add to the deliberations about
what those people who want to improve Lojban can do.

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And