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Another application of non-logical tense connection is to talk about sub-events of events. Consider a six-shooter: a gun which can fire six bullets in succession before reloading. If I fire off the entire magazine twice, I can express the fact in Lojban thus:
| mi | reroi | pi'u | xaroi | cecla |
| I | [twice] | [cross-product] | [six-times] | shoot |
| le | seldanti |
| the | projectile-launcher. |
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On two occasions, I fire the gun six times. |
It would be confusing, though grammatical, to run the reroi and the xaroi directly together. However, the non-logical connective pi'u expresses a Cartesian product (also known as a cross product) of two sets. In this case, there is a set of two firings each of which is represented by a set of six shots, for twelve shots in all (hence the name “product”: the product of 2 and 6 is 12). Its use specifies very precisely what occurs.
In fact, you can specify strings of interval properties and event contours within a single tense without the use of a logical or non-logical connective cmavo. This allows tenses of the type:
| la | djordj. | ca'o | co'a | ciska |
| That-named | George | [continuitive] | [initiative] | writes. |
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George continues to start to write. |
| mi | reroi | ca'o | xaroi | darxi | le | damri |
| I | [twice] | [continuitive] | [six-times] | hit | the | drum. |
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On two occasions, I continue to beat the drum six times. |