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Re: future tense

To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Subject: Re: future tense
From: Cyril Slobin <slobin@FEAST.FE.MSK.RU>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:23:26 +0300
In-Reply-To: <199510040009.DAA10003@feast.fe.msk.ru>; from "Steven M. Belknap" at Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:14:00 +0100
Organization: Institute for Commercial Engineering
Reply-To: Cyril Slobin <slobin@FEAST.FE.MSK.RU>
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>

coi

> possible that there really is no place such as Russia, (I've never been
> there...) and its all a grand, apparently pointless conspiracy to convince
> me there is a Russia.

Or United States... :-)

> Didn't Loglan distinguish between the prophetic sense of a future
> occurence, and the predictive sense? I seem to remember that from the
> latest edition of the Loglan textbook.

There is a bunch of "evidentials" to express state of your knowlege - like "I
hear", "I observe", "I opine" etc...

co'o mi'e kir.

--
Cyril Slobin <slobin@fe.msk.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
<http://www.fe.msk.ru/~slobin/> `it means just what I choose it to mean'

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