[lojban] Re: antiblotation (was: RE: taksi

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

Lojbab:
> At 01:40 AM 5/29/03 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> >Lojbab:
> > > Slight caveat here:  remember that Lojban predicates are "tenseless"
> >
> >Jimc, who restated in improved form what I said, makes a similar
> >point. However, asking "Is this a taxi/taksi" is no different from
> >asking "Are you a baby?", "Are you a university student?". Do
> >answer that, you have to add tense, yielding, say: "Is this a
> >taxi now?", "Are you a baby now?" Clearly you aren't a baby now;
> >you're an ex-baby. But is a taxicab sans passenger a taksi now, or
> >only an ex-taxi? So really I think my original point stands 
> 
> Nora likes to treat all Lojban predicates as being verblike.  Thus your 
> question is better expressed: Is a taxicab sans passenger "taxicabbing" 
> now, and I don't think that it is.  Most likely, it is "once and future 
> taxicabbing" %^)
> 
> For your later question: you don't hail a taxi, you request the state of 
> taxi-passengering 

Fair enough. The important thing is that we agree on the questions to
be asked when deciding on a place-structure.

That said, I think Craig was closer to the mark regarding the best
place structure for "taxi", but I'll deal with that (& its problems)
in a later reply. Suffice it to say here, that I see a big difference 
between a passengerless taxi and something that will have been a 
passengerful taxi.

--And.