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

[Robin Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 08:06, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

.a'u - would make a good mantra!

robin.tr