Subject: Re: [lojban] Logical translation request

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 23:28:26

la adam cusku di'e

> > caku le se zukte pu simlu le ka lojdra
>
>Just so that we can understand you, do you intend to use 'caku',
>'ni'aku', etc. with the meaning 'ca da', 'ni'a da', etc.,

{ca zo'e}, {ni'a zo'e}, etc, yes.

>instead of
>'now', 'under me', etc.?

Why instead? {ca zo'e} very often will correspond to 'now',
but in this case it couldn't, as the whole bridi is set in
the past! It can only be "then", or "the 'now' of that time",
if you prefer.

>It might be a good change, but it's
>counter-baseline.

I don't think so. I hope that the baseline doesn't say that
{caku} always means 'now'. It couldn't always work, as in
this example.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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