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[lojban-beginners] Re: How to express " though " "even if "
2009/3/2 J Y <kkm2019@gmail.com>:
>> I usually use "to'e ki'u nai" for that, literally "not prevented by":
>>
>> mi gleki to'eki'unai lo nu mi pindi
>>
>
> That is hard to understand for me.
It *was* for me too, pretty much. ;)
> In fact I want to mean
> { lonu mi pindi na mukti lonu mi na gleki }&{lonu mi pindi na srana lonu mi gleki } ( ra'anai lonu pindi ? )
>
> mu'o mi'e la se cfipu
Then:
mi pindi
semu'inai lo nu na gleki
sera'anai lo nu gleki
The second term might be better expressed with { jei }: { lo jei gleki }.
mu'o mi'e tijlan