Re: [lojban] High voodoo: sumti for here-and-now

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Nick NICHOLAS scripsit:
> 
> This came up in the lessons, although it won't be incorporated in them.
> The lessons say you can say "ma tcika ti" for "what time is it?" Is there
> a sumti representing "here-and-now" which can substitute for "ti"? "caku"
> isn't it, since it contains a sumti tag, and cannot form a default
> argument of a selbri.

I don't know of one. However, "caku" means "now" but not "here", and
in subordinate clauses it refers to the same time as the parent
clause.  "Nauku" means "here and now" absolutely.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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