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BPFK Section: Distance

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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:06:26AM -0700, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> I'm a bit worried about throwing away the "at or a short distance
> from" reading of vi, because this has so much usage. In fact, I'm not
> even sure how to say "near the tree" besides "vi le tricu".
>
> Even other VI/ZI cmavo can take the point of origin as an argument,
> such as "puza le nu spoja" = "a while before the explosion".
>
> I agree that there needs to be a way to specify the distance, but I
> don't think VI/ZI is it.

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