Re: lo lunra selgusni ninmu

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 01:55 PM 2/28/99 -0500, SwiftRain wrote:
>"Jorge J. Llambías" wrote:
>> Yes, and the way to do it is what you have above. It is also possible
>> to join tenses with logical connectors, but that gives a different
>> meaning. For example: {ko'a mi puzu je bazu xanjai} means
>> "she held my hand long ago and she will hold my hand in the
>> future", i.e. possibly two separate events, whereas {ko'a mi
>> puzuku bazuku xanjai} describes a single event, which is,
>> I believe, what you want in this case.
> 
>i see.  but what does it mean to say that a single event is both puzu
>and bazu?

By the imaginary jounrney metaphor, there is vector motion in time in the
tense order presented.

>  does that mean that it stretches from far past to far future

no - you would need the interval connective bi'i for this

>-- does "puzuku bazuku broda" assert that "caku broda"? 

No.  Because "zu" is an indefinite interval and may not have identical
values in the two tense occurances.  Thus as I answered Jorge, I would read
the above as "a long time ago was eventually going to"

lojbab