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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:56:57 -0700
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: Robin does the xorban (was Re: [lojban] Baby Words: "you're right"
 and orders.)
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:42:00PM +0200, selpa'i wrote:
> la .camgusmis. cu cusku di'e
> >1.  How would you mark a {ko} that's an order?  I use {e'o} for
> >requests.  For "You must do this!" I've been using {ga'i}, but
> >it's a tad unsatisfying.
> 
> The currently proposed BPFK meaning for {.e'i} is just that.
> {.e'i} becomes an irrealis attitudinal marking a command/order.
> Although this may seem like a big change to definition of the
> word, it seems to be the only way to express orders of this kind,
> so:
> 
> {.e'i do na broda}
> 
> I'm not sure I am 100% behind this definition, but the above
> argument speaks for it.

Given the incredibly tiny usage of {.e'i} according to the corpus
application (250 uses on IRC, and essentially none elsewhere,
especially if you ignore xorxes' usages since this was his
tinkering), I've decided that my household dialect will, in fact,
use {.e'i} as a command imperative.

I do not, at this time, mean to impose this on anyone else, but I
thouht it was worth publically noting.

-Robin

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