Re: [lojban] scalars and portion selbri

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had anticipated that someone might suggest {ve klama}. I believe
> that the {ve klama} is constant throughout the event of going.

But lo ca ba'o ve klama can only be a route already travelled, so the
route that goes from your starting point to (at most) the point where
you are now, which would be lo ca ba'o se klama.

> 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.

If you are considering a single event, then I agree it has a single
route. But you can also compare the route of the event of going from
the starting point to where you are now (that's the event which is now
in the ba'o phase) with the route of the event of going from the
starting point to your final destination (that's the event that will
sometime in the future be at the mo'u point), and then the first route
will be some fraction of the second route. The full event is not now
in the ba'o phase, so you can't describe it as "ca ba'o klama".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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