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Re: [lojban] Time-(non)local sumti (was: Mixing tenses, on the beginners list)


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
This amounts to saying it can be local or nonlocal, but doesn't specify how to *explicitly* state the distinction. The ability to make such specifications (if the language supports them at all) is pretty much my third axiom for Lojban design :)


I don't think the language supports that disticntion via grammar (it can make it semantically just as you are making it in English, of course). If you want a grammatical support for the distinction, I guess the first step would be to show why it would be desirable. Just because a distinction can be made is not reason enough to make it.

(What are your other axioms?)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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