Re: [lojban] scalars and portion selbri

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

On 13 July 2012 18:43, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Using si'e implies *time* I'd say, because these MOI cmavo don't know
>> of the natural implications of "going" such as distance travelled,
>> etc. Furthermore, in Lojban we must frequently use events as proxies
>> for their durations. ({mi klama ze'u lo cacra} is equivalen to {mi
>> klama ze'u lo nu do citka} if do eats for one hour.) We can presumably
>> use {la'e} to remedy this. Consider someone travelling to place 100km
>> away. The first 50 km took 30 minutes to travel, but the last 50km
>> took one hour. The temporal 50% is reached at 62.5km of travelled
>> distance, but the distance 50% is reached at 50km.
>>
>> #4 {la'e lo nu caba'o klama cu fi'uresi'e la'e lo mu'e klama}
>
> Or you could use "lo ve klama": "lo ca ba'o ve klama cu fi'u re si'e
> lo ba mo'u ve klama".
>

I had anticipated that someone might suggest {ve klama}. I believe
that the {ve klama} is constant throughout the event of going. That is
to say that I think that the route is just some trajectory connecting
the se klama to the te klama, regardless of the goer's current
position on that route. According to that belief, using {ve klama}
just doesn't work.

> mu'o mi'e xorxes
>
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