Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: mi nanca li (was: Re: Newbie says hi

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:26:03 +0000

la and cusku di'e

>Imagine we had truly spatial tenses, for saying things like
>"such and such is true of such and such a segment of space".
>How would you feel about me saying "I am 3 foot tall"?, conceiving
>me as extending to a length of 3 feet in a certain segment of space
>(the other 3 foot of me being in some other segment of space)?
>Maybe it's just too weird to reason about coherently.

It's weird to think of people in segments, but I wouldn't
have a problem with something like "the river is two miles
long this side of the border", even though the river may be
longer in its full extension.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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