Re: [lojban] Far away

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I further seem to recall that {vu} specifying the origin
> is no longer the case.

Sadly it seems to have recently been the case half the time. :(  Which
is to say that we have had an unresolved dispute here.  I think I'd
learned both ideas and they'd just harmlessly crossed in my mind,
since my natlangy brain is happy to disambiguate with the fact that
one idea always tags an event or place and the other always tags a
duration or distance.  But that's not actually lobykai!  So we'll have
to choose.

Today I thought of this idiom: {pu zi ca}.  That construction can tag
an event and definitely gives the same meaning as the origin tagging
idea of how {pu zi} works-- right?  And that way you can write {pu zi
lo snidu ca lo fasnu noi clani sumti pluja ciksi nitcu}, instead of
{pu lo fasnu noi clani sumti pluja ciksi nitcu ku'o zi lo snidu},
where you're forced to put the distance at the end, which often comes
out silly.

From now on I intend to use the new distance tagging understanding of
ZI and VA, and I've rewritten my song {la cmalu rokci} so it says {vi
bu'u lo rirxe korbi} instead of {vi lo rirxe korbi}.

.i je .a'o la .lojban. zenba lo ka za'e plixaubau

mi'e la stela selckiku

mu'o

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