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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Using "ko'a" when not specified by goi? Or
 maybe "da"?
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Hi,

When there isn't enough context to determine the referent of a
personal pronoun, a common practice appears to be to translate it with
ko'a-series, such as often occurs in Tatoeba. Given the context, we
could use ri-series, ti-series, lerfu strings or some appropriate
grammatical construction. Otherwise, ko'a is the best we can do, and
is enough for the purposes of Tatoeba.

In fact, it is quite appropriate. In Tatoeba sentences, these pronouns
are probably used more like placeholders than anything.

{da citka lo plise} means "someone ate the apple", which is quite different.

.a'o ba'o sidju

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.


On 1 July 2013 18:29, la .temlat. <njkanja@gmail.com> wrote:
> coi rodo
>
> If I was trying to make an example sentence like "He ate the apple" and I
> had nothing to refer back to (so I couldn't use ri/ra/ru) would it make more
> sense to say "ko'a citka lo plise" or "da citka lo plise".  I'd think the
> latter would be good because it means "X eats an apple". But I want to hear
> your input :)
>
> I want to know because I'm never sure what to use when translating such
> sentences on Tatoeba.
>
> ki'esai
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