[jbovlaste] Re: What would happen if xu and ko were put together?

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 10/18/2009 03:22:34 Eastern Daylight Time, cowan@ccil.org writes:


> Okay, that eliminates the priority question: "ko klama ma" is simply
> "ko klama zo'e .ije do klama ma".  So that's a *third* possible
> interpretation.  Lojban is supposed to be the language where you may not
> know what someone meant, but you always know what they said.  But with
> sentences like this, I have no clue what they said.  Recapping:
>
> "Where are you going?  Go there."  (no dominance)
>
> "Tell me where you are going and go there."  (command dominates)
>
> "Where are you going, and are you obeying my order to go there."
> (question dominates)


I wonder if any of this 'command+question' issue would have arisen if the creators of Lojban had simply chosen an imperative marker, maybe in UI, rather than an imperative pronoun.

mu'o mi'e stevon