On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Luke = Bergen <lukea= bergen@gmail.com> wrote:

oooo, just thought of another interesting u= sage.

A: ti'epei la djim prami la pam
B: t= i'enai li'a go'i

A: Did you hear, jim loves pam
B: No, I didn&= #39;t hear, it knew because it was obvious

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Luke Bergen= <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, don't forget about our good friend {pei}. Questions that aren&= #39;t really questions can be expressed like that.=A0 e.g. "mi sruma l= o du'u broda kei .iepei".=A0 This way you are basically tagging th= e "lo nu broda kei" with a question of "do you agree with it= " in stead of a plain ol' boolean/fill-in-the-blank question word.= =A0 This is useful for other things as well e.g. "mi'o citka lo pl= ise .uiro'opei".=A0 You're making a statement while simultanio= usly asking how the listener feels about it.

On Oct 12, 2011 3:52 PM, "Pierre Abbat"= ; <phma@phma.opt= us.nu> wrote:
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 15:41:52 Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> I just found myself, in English, ending a sentence that started with &= quot;I
> assume" with a question mark.
>
> I was asking a question, but I had no question words in the sentence.<= br> >
> {xu mi sruma ko'a} would translate as "Do I assume {ko'a}= ?", which is not
> what I meant.
>
> Is {pau mi sruma ko'a} grammatical (I expect so)?
> Is it a horrible misuse of {pau} (I hope not)?
> Would you understand it, and would it offend your lojbanic sensibiliti= es?

It is grammatical, and "pau" can be used without a question word,= but I'd have
to see the sentence in context to judge whether it's right.

Pierre

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