From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Thu Feb 11 09:05:27 1999 X-Digest-Num: 58 Message-ID: <44114.58.225.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:05:27 +0200 From: Robin Turner Paul O Bartlett wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Michael Farris wrote: > > > > > [cut] > > > > > mi is acheti - I bought it, I used to buy it (done and over) > > > > I would consider "I used to by it," referring to a habitual or > > repeated action, as an IMperfective in the past. > > Imperfective in the past would surely be the English Past Progressive, > though this also frequently, if not usually has the sense of an > interruptive. > > Robin Turner I was wondering what an interruptive would be in Lojban e.g. "I was leaving the house when the phone rang" (implying that I stopped and went back to answer it). {co'u} would work (or {de'a} if it was a mobile phone!), but doesn't carry the sense of an action being interrupted by something else. co'o mi'e robin.