Re: TEXT: nu la nunmorsi catlu

[Jorge LLambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

la nitcion cusku di'e

> #                .i mi penmi la nunmorsi le mi purdi ca le cerni
>
> A funny thought occured to me. In eliding anaphora, Japanese and Chinese
> are inferential languages --- you have to work out, aided by convention,
> who's doing what. In eliding tense information, as is done here, Lojban
> is doing the same. I wonder if this will be considered good style, once
> Lojban settles down, or whether {le ba cerni} would be preferred.

{le ba cerni}?? I thought it meant "this morning", and later Death talks
about "this evening". It seems natural to assume that they are talking
about the morning and evening of that day. I don't see why it would be
{le ba cerni}.

Jorge