Subject: Re: [lojban] High voodoo: sumti for here-and-now

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:30:10 -0400

At 08:56 PM 07/24/2001 -0700, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
>This came up in the lessons, although it won't be incorporated in them.
>The lessons say you can say "ma tcika ti" for "what time is it?" Is there
>a sumti representing "here-and-now" which can substitute for "ti"?

What meaning of "here and now" are you trying for that is not adequately 
expressed by "ti"? I can't see using "ti" in a situation other than in 
reference to something "here and now" for the speaker.

lojbab

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