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Re: [lojban] Lessons



At 04:14 PM 05/25/2001 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>So... do we need a new tense for this? Perhaps use a couple of 'x' cmavo to
>express "in another universe" or "in all possible universes" and one to
>return to the universe of what we believe to be true?

Something like that, yes, except I think it has to be a UI, not
a tense, and I'm not sure we need a new cmavo, we may already
have what we need. For example, I think we can understand {ei}
to mean "in an ideal world" (essentially the job of "should" in
English) {a'o} to mean "in my favourite possible world" and {au}
"in my favourite impossible world", or something like that, I
still haven't worked out all the details, but it looks promising.
I'd rather be sure of what we already have before bringing in
new cmavo.

ru'a, possibly modified by la'a spectrum (or ju'onai for truly impossible worlds).

lojbab
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