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Re: [jboske] tense and atemporality



At 02:29 PM 8/8/03 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
Consider:

jbena   x1 is born to x2 at time x3 [birthday] and place x4 [birthplace];

What does {mi fi li 1966;10;17 ba'o jbena} mean? That the relationship
between "mi" and "1966;10;17" is no longer occurring?

Not having seen how you got here, so I'm probably putting by foot in my mouth ...

It means that there was an event of mi being born at that time, and it is the aftermath of that event. So yes, the event of your being born (which presumably happened at that time) is no longer occurring.

mi ba'o klama le zarci similarly means that we are in the aftermath of my going to the store.

I'm not sure how I see that there should be a difference, merely because one of the places is a time.

lojbab

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