Re: [lojban] Next thursday

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing I frequently have trouble with in english is being unsure what
> someone means when they "next monday".  Is it the next monday to occurr or
> the one following.  I haven't found anything in jbovlaste for this, so how
> do you all say these things in lojban doi jbocecmu?

Well, I can tell you that I just wrote these song lyrics yesterday:

tu'e

bavlamfamyma'odei
bavlamfamyma'odei
bavlamfamyma'odei
klama do

.i penmi ne'a lo sailce
.i penmi ne'a lo sailce
.i penmi ne'a lo sailce
se ka'a do

tu'u

And I thought to myself that putting three {bavlamfamyma'odei}s in a
tanru like that would seem to mean to me three Tuesdays from now-- the
following Tuesday associated with (after) the following Tuesday
associated with (after) next Tuesday.  But it's a tanru so that's not
all it could mean.

I think that probably {bavlamfamyma'odei} always implies the next
Tuesday that's going to happen on the calendar, even if that's
tomorrow and it's strange that you called it {bavlamfamyma'odei} when
you could have just said {bavlamdei}.

Anyway the only possible confusion is in tendencies and implications,
there should certainly be places in the structures for what week an
adjacent week is adjacent to, right?

ni'o pau nai mu'i ma mi glisku .i do jboka'e .i .ai .au zo'o zo'o nai
ru'e jungau lo nintadni ba lo nu lojbo jdice

ni'o .ia le bavlamnondei cu du le bavlamdei .i .au lo jbovla cu zasti
gi'e se smuni lo du'u balvi lo djedi be li bi .i .ia plixau .i drata
glico bo smuni fi'o casnu do .i ra'o .biv. co'e .e'u ru'e

ni'o mi zgana lo nu la .pier. ji'a casnu .i .ia la .pier. cu cinri je
racli je se tugni xusra

mu'o mi'e la stela selckiku

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