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Maybe a verb for "to exist," "to do," or "to have quality x2." Being
and doing are arguably the same in Lojban.

On Aug 15, 12:11=A0am, Robin Lee Powell <rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org>
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:54:38AM -0700, jongausib wrote:
> > How do you say:
>
> > "To be or not to be, that is the question"
>
> > in lojban.
>
> Given what the sentence actually *means*, in context, {pau nai xu
> sevzi catra}, or similar. =A0If it's important to you to maintain the
> structure (which Lojban rather specifically tries to not let you do,
> by the way, since it has no copula), consider lifri or jmive.
>
> -Robin
>
> --http://singinst.org/: =A0Our last, best hope for a fantastic future.
> Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/):The language in which "this parrot
> is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false"
> is "na nei". =A0 My personal page:http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/

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