On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:44 PM, MorphemeAddict <= span dir=3D"ltr"><lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM= , Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:09 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:

ju'o so'i roi retsku .i ku'i ji'a sai= mi krefu retsku di'e .i fanva zo'oi should fu ma to mu'i zoi g= y. I should eat .gy. joi zoi gy. I should go to the gym .gy. to mabla me zo= zoi javni toi toi

"I'm sure it's been asked many times before; even so= , I ask it again: How does one translate "should" (e.g. "I s= hould eat", "I should go to the gym" (Damned "zoi"= rules))?

With gismu:
=

I'm a little unsure about the pr= oper Lojban word for what I mean here (selbri?), but it seems to me that us= ing "gismu" is overly specific. Similar for "attitudinal&quo= t; when "cmavo" would apply. Those two categories cover all the b= ases (since names can't do the job).=A0

I said gismu because that's what I used. IT= 's possible that other forms of selbri (eg. tanru, lujvo, etc.) would a= lso work, but the example I used was a gismu. The same reasoning applies to= the other example.

stevo

mi bilga lonu citka

Wit= h attitudinal (although I wouldn't be surprised if there's disagree= ment on this one):

mi citka.ei
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