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Subject: RE: [lojban] space tenses
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From: "And Rosta" <a-rosta@alphaphe.com>
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pc:
> jcowan@reutershealth.com writes:
> Actually it does: "nau" is an absolute tense cmavo meaning "here and now".
> 
> Nah, that's a modal or tense meaning, "at the speaker axis," not a 
> name at all or simti in general at all. 

"dei" is what I would use, and in my view is ultimately at the root
of all deixis.

--And.