Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 07:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] how to say "for obvious reasons"?
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I've been studying modals and I was wondering how you could say things like 
"I did this for obvious reasons".
The best translation I can think of is *mi pu co'e mu'i tu'a lo li'armi 
mukti*, but I don't find this very convincing since *tu'a [sumti]* = *lo 
nu/su'u [sumti] co'e*, and I don't know what that co'e could be in this 
case. One answer that comes to mind is that *tu'a lo li'armi mukti* = *lo 
su'u lo li'armi mukti cu zasti*, but when you say that you did something 
for obvious reasons it doesn't seem to me that you're saying *I did 
something because a self evident motive exists*.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

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