Re: response to art protin on 'nu'

[cowan (John Cowan)]

la lojbab. cusku di'e:
> Now, people, anyone want to try to explain how these four subclasses of events
> apply to the event of sleeping, generally spoken as "nu sipna".  True, we
> USUALLY think of sleeping as a state - but Lojban frees you from that
> constraint allowing you to think of sleeping as an activity or a process.

Well, the "process of sleeping" involves moving from wakefulness into
stage 1 sleep, then stage 2, then stage 3, then a dreaming interval,
then stage 3, then stage 4, then stage 3, .... then back to wakefulness.
This description can also be thought of as the activity of sleeping if
you focus on the individual steps rather than the progression from one
to the next.

And the "achievement of sleeping" is what happens when you hit the hay
and then wake up to the shrieking alarm about two seconds later.  :-)

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