Message-Id: <199709261527.KAA25515@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Don Wiggins Date: Fri Sep 26 10:27:45 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: RV: na'e entails na? X-To: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0015 Content-Length: 663 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Sep 26 10:27:45 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU > > Why not just use "drata"? Surely examples like this are part of what it's > > meant for. > Now presumably you are proposing that one should say "I would > very much enjoy that you drata suppigulate me", but you will > surely concede that this tanru is susceptible to a far greater > variety of interpretations than the na`e version would be. There is a standard for drata in x3. So "I would very much enjoy that you drata fileka gletu kei suppligulate me" with the sort of otherness being restricted to gletu-ness. Although with the simplified "na'e" things are unwieldy "I would very much enjoy that you don't and na'e suppigulate me". ni'oco'omi'e dn.