[lojban] Time duration issues.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

A long-standing issue with the language has been people wanting to
say "I spent 5 minutes walking to the market" with a sentence of the
form "mi klama lo zarci ZI lo mentu be li mu", where VA is some
sumtcita.

I'd like to re-open this dialogue with a couple of ideas.

The spatial equivalent, "I covered 5 meters walking to the market",
seems to me to be a bit easier.  The definition for "fe'eca'o" in
the cmavo list seems to imply that that's the way to do it, but it
seems to me that ne'i would also be fine.  It also seems that "vi'i"
is just about made for this.

The definition of "fe'eca'o" implies that ca'o is the Right Way to
do this in time tenses, but I'm pretty sure that this no longer
works with the BPFK's definition of ca'o.

It seems to me that a temporal equivalent of ne'i or vi'i would fix
things right up.

Many of use have been using ZI, such as "mi klama le zarci zi lo
mentu be li mu", but that apparently causes problems.  I can't
actually remember what problems it causes; can someone chime in on
that?

Thanks.

-Robin

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