Re: dacti

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

Lojbab asks and Xorxes replies:
>>You are claiming that an event is a dacti??!  I don't think of an =
event
>>as an object.  Indeed, it may even be to'e dacti on some scale.
>
>Events that happen certainly occupy space and last in time, so that
>I suppose you're not objecting to the "endure in space-time" bit,
>right?

I'm dubious: for one thing, "nu" doesn't seem quite like an English =
event; {le nu li ci cu zmadu li re} seems like possibly good lojban but =
not an "event", and I can't think how much space or time it might =
occupy.

Even with more concrete events that could still be a problem: with {lenu =
mi ciksi da poi mi pu gasnu}, "The event of: I explain what I did", the =
event could be said to last an indefinite period of time and take up an =
indefinite amount of space -- suppose what I did was historically =
critical, and the {terciksi} are a classroom full of students watching a =
video, 5000 years in the future on planet 100 light years away.

co'o mi'e kris