From lojban-out@lojban.org Sun Feb 02 00:43:28 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 2 Feb 2003 08:43:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 47764 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2003 08:43:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Feb 2003 08:43:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2003 08:43:28 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18fFiq-0002Eq-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:43:28 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fFhl-0002Du-00; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:42:21 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu ([18.7.21.83]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fFhf-0002Dl-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 00:42:15 -0800 Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA04204 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:42:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA28242 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:42:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from torg.mit.edu (RANDOM-THREE-NINETY-SIX.MIT.EDU [18.243.6.141]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA22452 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:42:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from rob by torg.mit.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18fFhS-0006kE-00 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 03:42:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:42:02 -0500 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "x years ago" Message-ID: <20030202084202.GB25701@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <1044106135.2490.24.camel@home.surreality.us> <1044106135.2490.24.camel@home.surreality.us> <5.2.0.9.0.20030202021940.032e5740@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030202021940.032e5740@pop.east.cox.net> X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-archive-position: 3980 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rspeer@MIT.EDU Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Rob Speer From: Rob Speer Reply-To: rspeer@MIT.EDU X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:39:33AM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > One way to do it is to pattern after examples in section 25 of the tense > chapter of CLL page 251, which explicit discusses location offsets, but > time offsets work exactly the same way except using pu as the time > direction instead of zu'a space direction. This allows the most > flexibility, making it possible to express X years before event Y, Z happened. But that requires termsets, which (it seems) nobody actually knows how to use, unless they're substituting words into an example. -- mu'o mi'e rab.spir