WTH? (was Re: [lojban] Baby words: "into", as in "into the toilet".)

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

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 08:31:17PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Sunday, March 10, 2013 20:45:18 tijlan wrote:
> > mo'ine'i pinca ko
> > Make yours a pee-moving-into!
> 
> iesai

0.o

Am I completely confused about how tenses work?

{ba klama le zarci} does *not* mean that *the zarci* is in the
future, it means the action (going to the market) occurs in the
future.  I *thought* that {vi klama le zarci} meant that the action
of going to the market occurs nearby.

If I'm right, {mo'ine'i pinca ko} is "pee whilst moving inwards",
like if you were telling a dog to scent mark whilst entering a cave.

Seriously, I'm disturbed by this conversation, because either I'm
badly wrong or Pierre is, and neither possibility fills me with joy.

-Robin

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