gleki wrote:
> there might be several definitions of it. see e.g.
> https://mw.lojban.org/papri/User:Gleki/Grammatical_aspects

It's the one you have listed as gnomic on that page, and I have seen many
Lojbanists use na'o to make gnomic aspect claims, so for them nau'e is a
synonym of na'o. But CLL says na'o means something else: "covers part of
the interval, but exactly which part is determined by context".

Comment #4: Re: what is gnomic?

Lake (Fri Mar 15 15:46:25 2024)

lalxu wrote: > gleki wrote: > > there might be several definitions of it. see e.g. > > https://mw.lojban.org/papri/User:Gleki/Grammatical_aspects > > It's the one you have listed as gnomic on that page, and I have seen many > Lojbanists use na'o to make gnomic aspect claims, so for them nau'e is a > synonym of na'o. But CLL says na'o means something else: "covers part of > the interval, but exactly which part is determined by context". Also, I guess na'onai means "atypically" whereas nau'enai means "episodically".

Comment #5: Re: what is gnomic?

gleki (Fri Mar 15 15:47:11 2024)

lalxu wrote: > gleki wrote: > > there might be several definitions of it. see e.g. > > https://mw.lojban.org/papri/User:Gleki/Grammatical_aspects > > It's the one you have listed as gnomic on that page, and I have seen many > Lojbanists use na'o to make gnomic aspect claims, so for them nau'e is a > synonym of na'o. But CLL says na'o means something else: "covers part of > the interval, but exactly which part is determined by context". Wdym "the" one? "Generic" or "gnomic" can be understood as "To be an apple is to be a fruit". But that's just "subset of set" concept (every member of set A is a member of set B). or as an antonym of "episodic" for which bare selbri or lo'e or le'e can be used. That is, i just listed 4 meanings. Can you please clarify in the definition which of them (if any) is meant?