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Re: TECH: (attention Ivan!) demonstrative predicate cmavo needed?

To: Erik Rauch <rauch>
Subject: Re: TECH: (attention Ivan!) demonstrative predicate cmavo needed?
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 13:49:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <199310271237.AA25194@access.digex.net> from "Logical Language Group" at Oct 27, 93 08:37:31 am
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> If relationships do not have spatial locations, why do we have spatial tenses.

Because a tense really applies to the EVENT, not the relationship as such.
"mi vi klama le zarci" means "le nu mi klama le zarci kei <is-nearby>".

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John Cowan              sharing account <lojbab@access.digex.net> for now
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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