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Re: [lojban] symmetrie of tenses
At 08:57 PM 09/29/2000 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
There are some important non-symmetrical features in the tense system -- in
Lojban as in the world ;().
For example, the inchoative need not be followed by the event abuilding,
while the perfective must be preceded by the event fading out. Something
could prevent even the most verged on impending ... event, prevent it from
happening at even the last moment. But only an event that happens has a
perfective aspect.
Is this necessarily true?
There would be be a nuclear winter in the aftermath of WW III, sounds like
it would be expressed with a perfective, but luckily it is not an event
which has actually happened.
lojbab
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