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Re: [lojban] space tenses

To: pycyn@aol.com
Subject: Re: [lojban] space tenses
From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:17:56 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com
In-reply-to: <170.121405e1.2a8acd49@aol.com> from "pycyn@aol.com" at Aug 13, 2002 04:59:53 PM

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

> Well, {zo'e} might work, meaning "now,"  but Lojban has no regular word for 
> "now" so it can't replace {zo'e} ({ca} means "at the identified or implict 
> temporal focus (axis)") 

Actually it does:  "nau" is an absolute tense cmavo meaning "here and now".

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