Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id IAA28078 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:41:41 -0400 Message-Id: <199510141241.IAA28078@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 6978D65D ; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 8:42:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 13:40:23 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: "ko" considered bad X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sat Oct 14 08:41:43 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Jorge: > What if you want to say "you (and others) go to your house (yours > alone)". In English you can't do it easily, but in Lojban there > shouldn't be a problem because of the do/do'o distinction. And yet > there is a problem, because do'o doesn't have an imperative version! > The general solution is to say {ei do'o klama le do zdani}, or whatever > is the right attitudinal for the context. I understand {ko} as referring to the same thing as {do}. I'd therefore translate your example as {ko e doo klama le do zdani}. --- And