Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Greetings, and commands

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:15:03PM -0600, Bodeen, Gabe wrote:
>
> > > > What are the recommended ways to express 1st- and 3rd-person commands?
> > > Can you give English examples of the kinds of commands you'd like to construct?
> > "Let's go," or the ubiquitous "Vamonos" in Spanish are first person
> > commands.  
>
> doi mi'o ko cliva
>
> or, more commonly,
>
> .ei mi'o cliva

Or e'u, if you want to be really polite.


> > As for third person commands, I've only seen them in English in the
> > 501 Verbs books, as "Let him go," which still isn't quite right.

They are very common in Turkish - I'm not sure what the Lojban 
equivalent is. Some are just requests, e.g. "paketli olsun" - literally 
"may it be packaged" and in practice "I'd like it to go."  Others are 
wishes plus an implication that this is not just what I wish - the word 
would be a better place if this were to happen.

The other Robin

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Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

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