From cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx Mon Mar 1 09:54:10 1999 X-Digest-Num: 78 Message-ID: <44114.78.476.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:54:10 -0500 From: John Cowan i see. but what does it mean to say that a single event is both puzu > and bazu? does that mean that it stretches from far past to far future > -- does "puzuku bazuku broda" assert that "caku broda"? No. puzuku bazuku means the same as puzubazuku, because the first tense sets an offset reference for the second tense. So it means an event far in the future of some event far in the past; whether before, after, or just at the present is quite indeterminate. It does *not* refer to a long interval; the length of the interval is also completely indeterminate. A long interval centered on the present would be ze'uca. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)