Re: THEORY ago (was: Most common irregular verbs?)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 21:07 |
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On 1/17/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> But, altho I've looked at several sites, I haven't discovered what
> happens with the Lojban equivalent of phrases like "three years ago".
The complicated version used on _The Complete Lojban Language_, which
la xorxes. alluded to, can be found in
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=188#s25
-- it uses "termsets" (which I'm not sure anyone particularly
understands).
The simplified version proposed uses za/zi/zu + a sumti indicating a duration.
> (BTW I get really put off by the use of all terms like cmavo, bridi,
> sumti, gismu, selma'o etc. :=(
One gets used to it after a while.
It's similar to having to learn what adjective, verb, and preposition
mean if you've never studied grammar before in your life, and Latin
grammar doesn't map well to Lojban so using "traditional" terms
probably won't get you very far.
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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