Re: [lojban] Directional facing (xorxes, please read).

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

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:10:32PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2012 09:22:37 selpa'i wrote:
> > Exactly. fa'a indicates the orientation of the main event. And
> > since fa'a is fi'o farna, farna also must be about orientation.
> > I use fa'a exclusively for orientation.
> 
> "fa'a" is a tense word, not a proper preposition. It's not
> equivalent to "fi'o farna". You can't say "le malsi cu zvati se
> fa'a la makat."

Sure, but there's a strong correspondence between tenses and
particular brivla, throughout the language.  And the gismu
definition itself is hardly unambiguous.

-Robin

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