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Starting stories
- To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
- Subject: Starting stories
- From: Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:27:55 -0500
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In English we have things like "once upon a time" or "one day" that we use conventionally to start stories, especially in fiction. Latin takes this one step further and uses just one word, "olim", which unlike the English version has no tense dependence; it makes sense to use olim in a story about the distant future. Does Lojban have anything like this, either defined this way (like Latin) or conventionally used this way (like English)? I've been hunting for a while and haven't gotten anywhere.
mu'omi'e latros.