Re: `already'

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

la dn mi di'e spuda

> > For example: {mi xa'o klama} = "I'm already on my way".
>
> .i ki'u ma na'e melu mi puco'a klama

i ki'u le du'u la'e di'u srana le purci i mi djica le nu tavla
le cabna

> This particular case is 'in the past I initiated going'.  I think that lojban
> has all the angles covered for aspect and then some.

That doesn't say that you are going in the present. You could say
{mi puco'a je ca ca'o klama} = "in the past I initiated going and I am
going now", but that could just as well mean "I am still going". There
is nothing in {mi puco'a klama} that says that it is happenned before
its time. If you say that "already" is not necessary, then {za'o} is
equally unnecessary. They are the two sides of the same coin.

Jorge