From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Aug 13 14:20:42 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 13 Aug 2002 21:20:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 81986 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2002 21:20:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2002 21:20:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Aug 2002 21:20:41 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA13681; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:31:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200208132131.RAA13681@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:17:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] space tenses To: pycyn@aol.com Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:17:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <170.121405e1.2a8acd49@aol.com> from "pycyn@aol.com" at Aug 13, 2002 04:59:53 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan pycyn@aol.com scripsit: > Well, {zo'e} might work, meaning "now," but Lojban has no regular word for > "now" so it can't replace {zo'e} ({ca} means "at the identified or implict > temporal focus (axis)") Actually it does: "nau" is an absolute tense cmavo meaning "here and now". -- One art / There is John Cowan No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter