Re: [lojban] Catching a bus

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la pycyn cusku di'e

> On the whole I think that the termination of the process
> is more illuminating here, although the whole process could be seen as the
> inchoative aspect of the state.

So we would have:

   mi mo'u pu'o se marce le trene
   "I completed being about to ride the train."

> Supposing this this problem were solved, with "trainri" as a placeholder 
> for
> now, the process catching a train could be either "trainrygau" or
> "trainryzu'e."

   mi mi selma'egau le trene
   I make myself ride the train.

Yes, that could work. Although it could also mean other things...

> "I just barely caught the bus" means that the completive aspect of the
> catching overlaps the inchoative aspect of the train's departure; "I almost
> caught the bus" means that the process overreaches the initiative aspect 
> the
> departure.

I don't think we can deal with these overlaps in any simple way.
The train's departure is not something we would be mentioning.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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