Re: [lojban] Attitudinal scales and the meaning of {cu'i}

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:21 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2010 23:12, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
>>
>> That {za'u re'u} is used as if it meant {za'u tu'o re'u}.
>
> Yes, I agree. And I see {za'u tu'o re'u} as the default meaning of {za'u
> re'u}.

"tu'o" is the PA equivalent of "zi'o", used to fill a place when the
syntax requires an argument and the semantics require that there be no
argument. What could "za'u tu'o" mean? Maybe you're thinking of "no'o"
rather than "tu'o"?

"za'u re'u" means "za'u pa re'u", i.e. "re re'u ja ci re'u ja vo re'u
ja mu re'u ja ..."

I don't think "za'u re'u" gives any hint at all as to which time it
is, other than explicitly excluding it being the first one.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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