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

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 1 June 2012 22:10, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> 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."

For me, FAhA and BAI are both prepositions, things you can put
(-position) before (pre-) another constituent to combine with it. Also
I don't think BAI can be entirely excluded from "tense words": "fa'e",
"di'o"... don't seem less tense-ish than "fa'a", "pa'o"... .

Many FAhA use the x2 of some brivla, for which BAI require "se". One
apparent reason for having such a preposition class in addition to BAI
is so that we don't have to repeat "se" for certain directional
expressions.

mu'o

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